{"id":1180061,"date":"2023-09-07T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180061"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:24:14","slug":"spacex-broke-its-record-for-number-of-launches-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180061","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX broke its record for number of launches in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/F46RylwbAAECF-8-800x533-1.jpe\" alt=\"A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off August 31 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/F46RylwbAAECF-8-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1707\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off August 31 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1697454572284031358?s=20\">SpaceX<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It probably seems like SpaceX is launching almost every day, and that&#8217;s not far from the case. It also might seem like SpaceX is regularly breaking one of its records, whether it&#8217;s in the number of launches, turnaround time, or reusing Falcon 9 boosters. It&#8217;s also true.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX blew past one of those records over Labor Day weekend when the company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission was SpaceX&#8217;s 62nd launch of the year using its Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket, or 63rd if you count the test flight of the Starship mega-rocket in April.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has launched 83 Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy missions over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1965920#p3\">Read 18 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1965920&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1965920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX broke its record for number of launches in a year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off August 31 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. (credit: SpaceX) It probably seems like SpaceX is launching almost every day, and that&#8217;s not far from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1180061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}