All things SpaceX - Updates and Discussion (04 2024 lands booster 301st time, 43 total launches this year)

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SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites; lands booster 254th time, 92 total launches this year​

 

[F-22Raptor]

SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites; lands booster 255th time, 93 total launches this year

 

[F-22Raptor]

SpaceX launches the SARah-2 mission, lands booster for 256th time, 94 total launches this year

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

11 boosters with 10 or greater landings
20 boosters that are active.
15 retired/expended

List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

B1046: 4
B1047: 3
B1048: 5
B1049: 11
B1050: 1
B1051: 14
B1052: 8
B1053: 3
B1054: 1
B1055: 1
B1056: 4
B1057: 1
B1058: 19
B1059: 6
B1060: 17
B1061: 17
B1062: 17
B1063: 15
B1064: 4
B1065: 4
B1066: 1 (Falcon Heavy core booster reserved for US military)
B1067: 15
B1068: 1 (Falcon Heavy core booster)
B1069: 11
B1070: 1 (Falcon Heavy core booster)
B1071: 13
B1072: 0 (Falcon Heavy side booster)
B1073: 11
B1074: 1 (Falcon Heavy core booster)
B1075: 8
B1076: 9
B1077: 9
B1078: 6
B1079: 1 (Falcon Heavy core booster)
B1080: 4
B1081: 3
B1084: 0 (Falcon Heavy core booster)

 

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SpaceX makes history with a 19th reuse of a Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket that had flown 18 times before, breaking its record.

interestingengineering.com

 

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Interesting...is Europe thinking of buying a Starship spacestation...land in Mediterranean someday.

Axiom-3 Will Launch From Pad LC-39A At Kennedy Space Center NET January 17, 2024 | TalkOfTitusville.com

Axiom Mission 3, the first all-European private mission to the International Space Station, will launch no earlier than January 17, 2024 from Kennedy Space Center, the company announced today. The […]

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Marcus Wandt , Walter Villadei , Michael López-Alegría , Alper Gezeravcı


Axiom Mission 3, the first all-European private mission to the International Space Station, will launch no earlier than January 17, 2024 from Kennedy Space Center, the company announced today. The astronauts will fly aboard a Crew Dragon boosted by a SpaceX Falcon 9 and will depart from LC-39A.

There had been some discussion in space circles that this mission might be the first crewed mission to use SpaceX’s new crew launch tower at SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but today’s announcement rules that out – Commander Michael López-Alegría, Pilot Walter Villadei, and Mission Specialists Alper Gezeravcı and Marcus Wandt will begin their planned fourteen day mission from the same location as all of SpaceX’s other crewed missions. Neither SpaceX nor Axiom Space made any comment as to why this selection was made.

Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon sitting on the launch pad earlier this year awaiting the launch of the Crew-7 group of astronauts to ISS.
Photo: Charles Boyer, Talk of Titusville

This mission will mark the first time that the European Space Agency (ESA) has employed commercial services companies for a crewed mission — all of their other astronauts have been crew members aboard either a NASA or Roscosmos flight. From time to time, some discussions about the Europeans developing their own capability for crewed flights aboard ESA rockets and spacecraft have arisen, but to date, there has not been any concrete effort in that direction.

Axiom Space’s Chief Astronaut Michael López-Alegría will serve as mission commander, and will represent both the U.S. and Spain as a dual-citizen. Mission pilot is Italian Air Force Col. Walter Villadei, and the two mission specialists are Alper Gezeravcı of Türkiye and ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden. Villadei, Gezeravcı, and Wandt have extensive flight crew experience and have all served in their nation’s Air Forces.

According to press materials provided by Axiom Space, the Ax-3 crew will perform the following activities:

Italy​

Axiom stated that the Italian contributions to Ax-3 will include “experiments consist of projects investigating and mitigating the physiological effects of spaceflight on humans; a strong focus on using microgravity to understand biological changes related to health and disease on Earth; and commercial activities related to improved cuisine will also be conducted.

“The Italian portfolio of experiments are sponsored and led by the Italian Air Force (ItAF) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), involving Italian universities, research centers, and companies wishing to leverage microgravity for biological and technological testing and development.”

Türkiye (Turkey)​

“The Turkish portfolio will focus on advanced technological development of novel hardware and capabilities to advance Türkiye’s goals as a space-faring nation and build on its successes in satellite development. These experiments are led by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Türkiye (TUBITAK).

“The projects are also adopting advanced scientific techniques (e.g., gene editing, metabolomics) to understand the impact of spaceflight on plants and humans. TUBITAK has also sponsored STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) outreach projects for schoolchildren in Türkiye.”

ESA / Sweden​

Axiom and ESA were less specific in their portion of flight activities:

“The ESA experiment portfolio consists ofprojectss to build on ESA’s mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capabilities and bring value to the citizens of Europe and the world.

“The portfolio has many activities that supports ongoing ESA projects on the ISS to develop advanced technologies for application on Earth and enable long-term space habitation and exploration.

“Continued work will take place to understand how humans can live and work off-Earth.

“Investigations to understand changes in weather and physical forces in microgravity will further inform ESA researchers exploring fundamental scientific principles.”

 

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ugh historic booster 1058 topples over in high winds and seas as it is being returned to Cape Canaveral.

The special Booster 1058 with the NASA "worm" logo that took the first manned Crew Dragon into space and had the record 19 landings...is now gone.

 

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[F-22Raptor]

SpaceX launches the USSF-52 mission with Falcon Heavy; lands boosters for the 257th and 258th time, 95 total launches this year

 

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SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites; lands booster 259th time, the 96th and final launch of 2023

 

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SpaceX launches another 21 Starlink satellites; lands booster 260th time, 1st launch of the year!

 

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SpaceX aiming for 144 launches this year

 

[Get Ya Wig Split]

Hey @F-22Raptor, maybe it's a good idea to sort everything into a table or different categories since there'll be almost 150 flights this year. It'd be nice to have things more organized. Totally up to you though. Like something along these lines:

2024
Total launches: 1
Falcon 9 Launches: 1
Falcon Heavy Launches:
Starship launches:
Crew dragon launches:
Number of Starlink Satellites: 5,500
-----------------------------------------
Total launches: 260

Something along these lines. Feel free to keep it as is if you'd like. I likely won't stick around on this forum for much longer (probably just checking in from time to time). Maybe you could later add Blue Origin's launches if they manage to put together the New Glenn rocket this year. They might even start sending rockets into space regularly next year.

 

[F-22Raptor]

SpaceX launches the Ovzon 3 mission; lands booster 261st time; 2nd launch of the year

 

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SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites; lands booster 262nd time, 3rd launch of the year