“The goal next year is 12 launches per month, for a total of 144 Falcon rocket flights. Like this year, most of those missions will be primarily devoted to launching Starlink broadband satellites…Last year, SpaceX launched 61 missions. In 2021, the number was 31. In the last 12 months, SpaceX has launched 88 Falcon rockets, plus one test flight of the company's much larger Starship rocket.”
That’s a lot of launches. Booster reuse is now 20.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/next-year-spacex-aims-to-average-one-launch-every-2-5-days/
#internet #starlink #spacex
“In 2022, when SpaceX and T-Mobile first announced the Starlink phone service, SpaceX founder Elon Musk suggested it would require much larger Starlink satellites that could only launch on the company's giant new Starship rocket. That rocket has taken longer to make operational than SpaceX expected, and Musk said earlier this month he expects Starship to be ready to carry Starlink satellites into orbit in roughly a year.”
