Comments on: SpaceX: We are targeting 170 launches in 2025 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-we-are-targeting-170-launches-in-2025/ Fri, 30 May 2025 22:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-we-are-targeting-170-launches-in-2025/#comment-1591794 Fri, 30 May 2025 22:48:19 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114480#comment-1591794 SpaceX may have to ramp up their cadence a little bit. They are currently on schedule for 158 annual launches as of the end of May (156, if we don’t count Starship).

Right now they are at about 13 launches per month, they need to get to 15 monthly launches to reach 170 by the end of the year.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-we-are-targeting-170-launches-in-2025/#comment-1591791 Fri, 30 May 2025 22:28:06 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114480#comment-1591791 170 is quite a reasonable number – and, yes, Ms. Mason was referring to Falcon launches only. If the currently scheduled Starlink launch from Vandy goes off tomorrow, SpaceX will have launched 66 times in five months and launched 16 times in May alone. Assuming it can maintain – not even increase – this cadence for the rest of the year – it would launch 112 more Falcons. That would yield a 2025 total of 178, comfortably above the revised target of 170 and nearly up to the 180 target established early in the year. Even if SpaceX can average only 15 launches per month over the remainder of 2025, that would still come to an additional 105 launches. That would allow SpaceX to make its newly revised target even if the Vandy launch scheduled for tomorrow does not go off as planned. It would also represent an average advance of three Falcon launches per month over what it managed to do in 2024.

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