SpaceX 100 successful flights

[chalz]

Full title: 100 successful flights past the Karmen line.

[darkenfast]

Full title: 100 successful flights past the Karmen line.

Aww, now you just made Virgin Galactic feel bad!

[Tommyboy]

Full title: 100 successful flights past the Karmen line.

Aww, now you just made Virgin Galactic feel bad!

And that wasn't the only virgin he made feel bad. Virgin Orbit also didn't like that.

[Hog]

Space X, 1 successful crewed flight, many more on the horizon.  Cheers!

[DreamyPickle]

They are now at 100 successful orbital flights.

[kevin-rf]

I'm just waiting for 100 successful fairing reuses.

[meekGee]

I'm just waiting for 100 successful fairing reuses.

I bet a single booster will fly 100 times before then.

[ZachS09]

I'm just waiting for 100 successful fairing reuses.

I bet a single booster will fly 100 times before then.

IIRC, Elon said that’s the maximum number of flights a booster can do with the proper maintenances.

[meekGee]

I'm just waiting for 100 successful fairing reuses.

I bet a single booster will fly 100 times before then.

IIRC, Elon said that’s the maximum number of flights a booster can do with the proper maintenances.

Ok, so 101.

[DreamyPickle]

The Falcon family is now at 99 successful orbital flights.

[Comga]

I'm just waiting for 100 successful fairing reuses.

I bet a single booster will fly 100 times before then.

IIRC, Elon said that’s the maximum number of flights a booster can do with the proper maintenances.

Ok, so 101.

I would bet that if you asked Musk how many significant figures there are to his “one hundred” he would say a half, not three. 😉

[Joffan]

So SpaceX noted today's CRS-21 launch as the 100th successful Falcon 9 launch.

[otter]

SpaceX aces 100th Falcon 9 launch, kicks off dual Dragon operations

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-9-launch-landing-two-dragons-in-orbit/

[edkyle99]

So SpaceX noted today's CRS-21 launch as the 100th successful Falcon 9 launch.

That includes 99 Falcon 9 missions that made orbit (one to a slightly low orbit) and one successful suborbital Falcon 9.  Two additional Falcon 9s were destroyed - one during an orbit attempt and one on the ground during propellant loading for a pre-launch static firing.    Here's my count.

Falcon 9 Launches(Failures)
Orbital
v1.0     5(1)*
v1.1    15(1)
v1.2    80(0)**
------------------
       100(2)

Suborbital
v1.2     1(0)

Total  101(2)

*Engine-out ascent.  Low orbit.  1 of 2 payloads lost
**Does not include AMOS 6 pre-launch explosion

 - Ed Kyle

[Mongo62]

For what it's worth, here is my own tracking spreadsheet for all F9 boosters (including engineering test articles), with primary payloads reaching orbit for each.

I count (so far) 99 successful flights to orbit plus one planned IFA and two RUDS, totaling 102 missions.

However, the IFA performed as planned, so the total would be 100 successful flights (not counting low-altitude test flights).

(file replaced after fixing error in spreadsheet)

[GWH]

The number that surprised me was that the Falcon 9 reflights outnumber the total number of Delta IV launches.

..and closing in on the same number of cores recovered 61 as all the Delta IV cores ever flown.
Last I looked they've recovered 61, where as 73 Delta IV cores have flown when counting the 11 Heavies.

[david1971]

The number that surprised me was that the Falcon 9 reflights outnumber the total number of Delta IV launches.

..and closing in on the same number of cores recovered 61 as all the Delta IV cores ever flown.
Last I looked they've recovered 61, where as 73 Delta IV cores have flown when counting the 11 Heavies.

According to Wikipedia, Delta IV has flown the following number of times for each configuration:
Medium+ (4,2) - 15
Heavy - 11
Medium+ (5,4) - 8
Medium+ (5,2) - 3
Medium - 3

B1051 will soon have as much flight heritage as Delta IV Medium+ (5,4).

[DreamyPickle]

On a somewhat related note the Falcon 9 has now reached 126 flight attempts equaling the Russian Soyuz-2 family. Other models of the Soyuz have flown many more times but all of those have since been retired.

Soon enough Falcon 9 will be the active rocket with the most launches, though it depends on how you could which rockets are in the same family.

It might be fairer to count Falcon 9 Block 5 separately when comparing to models of the large Soyuz and Long March families.

[scr00chy]

SpaceX has also recently reached 100 successful missions in a row (since the Amos-6 accident).

[dglow]

Ed Kyle’s Space Launch Report