Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Oct 21, 2023

#SpaceX launched for the 75th time this year, continuing a flight cadence that should see the company come close to 100 missions by the end of December.

SpaceX plans to kick its #LaunchRate into a higher gear in 📆 2024 https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/next-year-spacex-aims-to-average-one-launch-every-2-5-days/

Next year, SpaceX aims to average one launch every 2.5 days

The rollout of Starlink-for-phones will add new demands to SpaceX’s launch schedule.

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jul 14, 2023
#SpaceX has around 16 flight-proven #Falcon boosters in its fleet, with several more new-build #rockets slated to fly by the end of the year.
The main #limitation of #SpaceX’s #LaunchRate is not the availability of flight-ready #rockets—it’s the turnaround of the company’s three #Falcon9 #LaunchPads. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/spacex-launches-its-fleet-leading-rocket-booster-for-record-16th-time
SpaceX is stretching the lifetime of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters

Each Falcon 9 booster could fly twice as many times as originally intended.

Ars Technica