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SpaceX sets new rocket record with 96 successful launches in 2023 (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SpaceX sets new rocket record with 96 successful launches in 2023::SpaceX this year launched 96 successful missions with its Falcon series of rockets, topping its previous annual record of 61 orbital launches in 2022.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

I think 19 reuses of a single rocket is more impressive here TBH

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

how many did their competition send up?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think they beat SpaceX last year

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Take that past-SpaceX! You losers!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

it took all of them combined? wow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think if you added up every other civilian space launch in the world, it might come to half of what SpaceX launched.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

let's just nationalize this company for nat security purposes and take musko-the-clowno out of the equation.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Put more money, do more launches. Yawn.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right now they're actually doing more launches with less money and waste, but hate on I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

let's be honest though - they're launching starlinks at a loss on the hope of future returns.

It's not profitable like an external customer would be. And the more I think about starlink's future implications the more I think the whole thing should be nationalized by the US government like TOR: let anyone connect to the internet, especially in areas under attack.

And also, swarm the sats against launching icbms if needed :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Starlink is definitely at a loss right now. Despite this, Falcon 9 launch costs are significantly lower for actual customers as well, and the reuse factor cannot be ignored

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Who else has a reusable rocket, in any form?

The supposedly reusable space shuttle, which had the deep pockets of government, did 135 launches...over 30 years, to the tune of about $200 billion.

"SpaceX estimated that Falcon 9 v1.0 development costs were on the order of US$300 million.[40] NASA estimated development costs of US$3.6 billion had a traditional cost-plus contract approach been used"

Space shuttle was nearly seven HUNDRED times greater cost. NASA admitted Falcon would've cost 100x more if they'd developed it, so I'm gonna say a real cost would've been 1000x more (like the shuttle), because we know how good governmental agencies are at exceeding budgets.

So throw money at it, eh? Like NASA? Because what SpaceX has done (apply private-sector, finance-controlled, Agile project management to spaceflight), resulted in a cost that's at worst ten PERCENT of NASA, in 1/30th of the time, without killing anyone, unlike NASA and it's crony companies.

Fuck Boeing, Northrop, GD, etc. Those bastards have had their time stealing from us via NASA cost-plus contracts and killing highly trained astronauts, just to pillage from the government. There's no excuse for the failures they've had.