Elon Musk’s company SpaceX It broke its own record for the number of orbital rocket launches: it carried out 96 successful missions in 2023, an average of one every four days. In addition, the company stood out with a number of other achievements.

SpaceX In 2023, it carried out 91 Falcon 9 rocket launches and five more Falcon Heavy launches, surpassing its previous record by a large margin: in 2022, the company carried out 61 orbital launches. You can present a new achievement another way: This year alone, SpaceX has launched more Falcon 9s than in the first decade after the rocket launched. The number did not include two Starship test flights that did not carry commercial cargo.

Last year, SpaceX Launched the 250th launch vehicle. Additionally, the company has once again expanded the limits of rocket reuse; He threw out first base for the 19th time and returned. This week the company also broke the record for the shortest time between launches, breaking the previous record set in 1966 at less than three hours.

SpaceX Vice President of Launch Vehicles Hawk Jon Edwards (Jon Edwards) said that a few years ago Elon Musk said: “100 launch targets as an imaginary experiment”. “We are here. I’m incredibly proud to work with the best “We have a world-class team and I’m excited to see what we can achieve next year.”— Edwards wrote on social network X and SpaceX plans 144 missions for 2024 Hawk — the company will continue to deploy communications satellite constellations starlink.