{"id":21725,"date":"2024-04-14T20:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-the-first-falcon-booster-20-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:44:02","slug":"spacex-launches-the-first-falcon-booster-20-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-the-first-falcon-booster-20-times\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches the first Falcon booster 20 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"40400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2024\/04\/13\/spacex-launches-the-first-falcon-booster-20-times\/gla05wgawaabqoh\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"3000,1688\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"SpaceX Falcon B1062 20th flight\" data-image-description=\"\n\n<p>SpaceX social media<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-image-caption=&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/GLA05wGawAABqoh.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: SpaceX\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday evening SpaceX launched a Starlink mission that while not newsworthy anymore, the booster it launched on was. B1062, first launched in 2020, has now reached the big 20 mission milestone.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-40398\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-once-again-we-re-at-another-booster-milestone\">Once again we\u2019re at another booster milestone<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it took a bit longer than we expected after the destruction of B1058 on its return to port, SpaceX has hit that 20 mission milestone. Friday evening at 9:40 P.M. from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, SpaceX launched B1062 with 23 Starlink Gen 2 mini satellites on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B1062 first lifted off on November 5, 2020 with GPS III SV04 \u201cSacagawea.\u201d Since then it has flown 13 Starlink missions (including the one from last night), eight astronauts, and various other commercial payloads, including Starlink\u2019s competitor OneWeb. Bring it to a grand total of 20 flights, once the believed limit of Falcon 9 boosters.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-list-of-b1062-flights\">List of B1062 flights<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GPS III SV04 \u201cSacagawea\u201d \u2013 November 5, 2020<\/li>\n<li>GPS III SV05 \u201cNeil Armstrong\u201d \u2013 June 17, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Inspiration 4 \u2013 September 16, 2021<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 4-5 \u2013 January 6, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Axiom-1 \u2013 April 8, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 4-16 \u2013 April 29, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Nilesat-301 \u2013 June 8, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 4-25 \u2013 July 24, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 4-27 \u2013 August 19, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 4-36 \u2013 October 20, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 5-1 \u2013 December 28, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 5-4 \u2013 February 12, 2023<\/li>\n<li>OneWeb #17 \u2013 March 9, 2023<\/li>\n<li>ArabSat 7B \u2013 May, 27, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 6-7 \u2013&nbsp;July 28, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 6-23 \u2013 October 18, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 6-30 \u2013 November 28, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 6-38 \u2013 January 29, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 6-44 \u2013 March 16, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Starlink Group 6-49 \u2013 April 12, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The booster performed like it came right out the SpaceX factory in Hawthorne. B1062, lofted its second stage and Starlink satellites on their intended trajectory before returning for a perfect landing on droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-40398',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join our Discord Server: Join the community with forums and chatrooms about space!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-falcon-9-s-limits-might-just-be-starship\">Falcon 9\u2019s limits might just be Starship<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When SpaceX first began reusing its first stage, many didn\u2019t think it was even possible. When it became possible, the hypothetical limits by Elon Musk was close to 10 or 15 launches. That was also at the time believed to be a big ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SpaceX is no longer advertising potential limits to how many times they can refly a booster before seeing any failures. There will be limits, and SpaceX intends to find them but don\u2019t have an idea as to when they\u2019ll show up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each booster goes through a rigorous refurbishment process before reflight. However, those process have come down in time it takes to finish, some boosters reflying in a matter of weeks. It\u2019s possible teams have already spotted failing points before flight and those booster see longer refurbishments but that\u2019s something we\u2019ll probably never hear about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The knowledge gained with reusing Falcon is important for the company\u2019s new rocket, Starship. SpaceX hopes to launch Starship rockets on a near hourly bases, meaning those boosters and ships will quickly replace Falcon boosters in reflight records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starship may just be a few more flights away before beginning sending payloads to orbit. This will most likely begin with full size Starlink Gen 2 satellites, likely replacing the mini variations launch on Falcon 9s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it might be hard to believe, we could be reaching the conclusion of the Falcon 9\u2019s career (we\u2019re talking years here not months), at least its commercial career. While it\u2019s unknown how many customers will move from Falcons to Starship, the potential low cost for launch could mean the bulk switch over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So does that mean we\u2019ll never know the limit of Falcon 9 boosters? Unsure, B1062 will probably fly a few more times this year, maybe it\u2019s 21, or 25, or 50. Whatever it is, Starship will most likely be higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}