SpaceX has launched an average of 3.9 days this year and has launched 800 tons of payload

At 8:39 on October 18, Beijing time, SpaceX launched the 114th batch of 22 Starlink V2mini satellites from Cape Canaveral Launch Pad 40, bringing the total number to 5,287. This launch used a 16-hand Falcon 9 rocket B1062.16 and was successfully recovered on an unmanned barge.

This is SpaceX’s 47th Starlink launch mission in 2023. The total number of launches throughout the year has reached 74, far exceeding last year’s 61, and an average of one launch is completed every 3.92 days. The density is staggeringly high.

This year, SpaceX has launched a total of 800 tons of payloads, most of which are Starlink satellites.

In the first half of the year, SpaceX launched 43 times, while other orbital launches in the world during the same period totaled only 53 tons.

In the first half of the year, SpaceX launched a payload of 447.2 tons, followed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which launched a payload of 47 tons.

In the future, SpaceX will continue to increase launch density.At least 10 times a month this year, and an average of 12 times a month next year, for a total of at least 144 times.