SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket reuse record continues to be refreshed, reaching 17 reuses and achieving two consecutive reuses. The first is at 11:38 on September 20, Beijing time, numberB1058.17The Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 Starlink V2mini.
Then exactly three days later, at 11:38 on September 24, No.B1058.17The Falcon 9 rocket launched another 22 Starlink V2mini.
More than a day later, at 0:48 a.m. on September 26, the numberB1075.6The sixth Falcon 9 rocket once again sent 21 Starlink V2mini into space.
All three rockets were successfully recovered, and the next step is to challenge the 18th reuse.
So far,SpaceX has completed 68 orbital-level launch missions in 2023, already exceeding 61 last year. In September alone, it carried out 8 Starlink launches and an SDA military satellite launch.
Musk said that in the next four months, SpaceX will launch more than 10 times a month, with an average of 12 launches per month by 2024, and at least 144 launches throughout the year.
As of now,SpaceX has launched a total of 5,178 Starlink satellites.