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SpaceX’s Falcon rocket family reaches 200 straight successful missions (spaceflightnow.com)
4 points by rippercushions on May 11, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


The buried lede is how launch consistency drove Starlink's massive success.


Does anyone know how many Falcon 9s were required to make it to 200 flights? I assume they didn't actually make 200 rockets.


Not sure, but the Wikipedia page lists a total of 30 B5-block boosters, of which (I think) 23 have at least one launch. Many have over 10 launches.

That's not a full accounting, but the number is clearly well under 200.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...




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