Three launches within 48 hours. All on reused boosters. No scrubs. They are dialed in.
Quote from: Norm38 on 06/20/2022 02:10 amThree launches within 48 hours. All on reused boosters. No scrubs. They are dialed in.They only demonstrated salvo capability, which while an important milestone, can easily be a manifest scheduling artifact. The more critical metrics are pad cycle time, booster refurb cycle time, and current fleet status/size.If they can do a tripleheader again in 4 weeks time, then that would be impressive. Doing it in 2 weeks would be amazing.
If they do a tripleheader in 2 weeks time, someone here will be saying "that's nice but what about 1 week time?"
For example the refurb time has a clear tradeoff with the number of rockets. If skilled labor is the limiting factor it might be better to refurbish 8/5 rather than 24/7 and accept a larger fleet with longer cycle times for each rocket.
Quote from: Barley on 06/21/2022 04:48 pmFor example the refurb time has a clear tradeoff with the number of rockets. If skilled labor is the limiting factor it might be better to refurbish 8/5 rather than 24/7 and accept a larger fleet with longer cycle times for each rocket.For pad turnaround instead of booster turnaround, are all the personnel SpaceX employees and contractors, or are some of them NASA and USSF? SpaceX may not be able to reduce pad turnaround much.
So far this year SpaceX is launching once per week. Two tripleheaders 4 weeks apart would be a decrease in tempo.
Summary of F9 / FH booster landings (although I think there were 30, not 29, in 2021?)
The Falcon 9’s single-use upper stage...
Here's a milestone:(snip) SFN launch article.Falcon 9 rocket deploys SpaceX’s 3,000th Starlink internet satellite, August 10The article refers to QuoteThe Falcon 9’s single-use upper stage...It's like before mass produced Teslas, when it was rare that anyone referred to "internal combustion engine" or ICE automobiles or even "gas powered cars", because they basically all were.Rocket reusability is being normalized.
...and the 38th mission with a flight-proven booster 🚀
Today was the 69th booster recovery in a row since the last landing failurenice
To add to this. Falcon 9 landings are now so routine and reliable, they're getting up to points of reliability that some rockets have but launching.
If SpaceX can keep this trend for another year, they may even have more successful landings in a row than more successful launches in a row by any other rocket 😅
SpaceX currently has a total of 14 active Falcon 9 boosters in Cape Canaveral & Vandenberg.• B1049-10• B1051-13• B1052-7• B1058-14• B1060-13• B1061-10• B1062-9• B1063-6• B1067-6• B1069-2• B1071-4• B1073-4• B1076-0• B1077-0📷: Me for @SuperclusterHQ
It's hard to wrap my mind around there being five reused SpaceX boosters with double digit launch-and-landings.5 that have done the work of 60!
twitter.com/jennyhphoto/status/1575899587239620609It's hard to wrap my mind around there being five reused SpaceX boosters with double digit launch-and-landings.5 that have done the work of 60!
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 09/30/2022 05:42 pmtwitter.com/jennyhphoto/status/1575899587239620609It's hard to wrap my mind around there being five reused SpaceX boosters with double digit launch-and-landings.5 that have done the work of 60!It is an impressive achievement. It'll be interesting to see if they do push on to 15 before year's end or give some of the lower launch stages more play. Certainly a couple of them could get there but then how much effort to check them over prior to any further launches?
I thought the idea was to intensively inspect one or perhaps two boosters at "age" 15, maybe even tear them down, to learn what really needs to be inspected. The knowledge gained will tell them how much inspection is needed for the rest, and almost certainly be a small increment over what they are doing already, so this extra work (two teardowns) won't affect the overall launch cadence.Remember that 1049 is being held in reserve to be expended on the next expendable launch, so it's not in the normal rotation.