SpaceX launched its 67th rocket of the year on Tuesday night, a staggering total for the company and its workhorse booster, the Falcon 9.
Remarkably, SpaceX has been able to push the limits of booster reuse while maintaining a 100 percent record of success across the Falcon 9 rocket’s last 228 launches, dating to a pad explosion in September 2016.
Additionally, the company only risks its own internally built Starlink satellites on the most experienced boosters, reserving rockets with less mileage for its customers.
On its webcast of Tuesday night’s launch, the “Starlink Group 6-17 mission,” SpaceX also continued its trend toward a minimalist broadcast approach.
The company still provides a hosted webcast for external satellite customers and partners with NASA for crew and cargo launches.
One of SpaceX’s earliest employees, Hans Koenigsmann, once told me that one of the company’s goals was to take the “magic” out of launch.
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SpaceX launched its 67th rocket of the year on Tuesday night, a staggering total for the company and its workhorse booster, the Falcon 9.
Remarkably, SpaceX has been able to push the limits of booster reuse while maintaining a 100 percent record of success across the Falcon 9 rocket’s last 228 launches, dating to a pad explosion in September 2016.
Additionally, the company only risks its own internally built Starlink satellites on the most experienced boosters, reserving rockets with less mileage for its customers.
On its webcast of Tuesday night’s launch, the “Starlink Group 6-17 mission,” SpaceX also continued its trend toward a minimalist broadcast approach.
The company still provides a hosted webcast for external satellite customers and partners with NASA for crew and cargo launches.
One of SpaceX’s earliest employees, Hans Koenigsmann, once told me that one of the company’s goals was to take the “magic” out of launch.
The original article contains 558 words, the summary contains 150 words. Saved 73%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The important metric left out of the headline, byline, and summary is: the first stage has been reused 17 times.
Lol I was reading along waiting for the part about the record that was broken to come up but it never did. Thank you