Is Elon correct?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1583133885696987136
Congrats to @SpaceX team on 48th launch this year! Falcon 9 now holds record for most launches of a single vehicle type in a year.
The Soviet Union certainly had quite a few years with more launches overall. I don’t know the breakdown for different launch vehicle types.
Just saw this:
https://twitter.com/alexphysics13/status/1583134434546843648
And at the current launch cadence and with current schedules the whole Falcon family will beat the Soyuz family on most launches of a rocket family in a given year which is currently at 62.
Based on information from Jonathan C. McDowell's website,
https://planet4589.org, more specifically on the data from the R-7 family on the page below, it appears that 1980 saw the most launch attempts by a rocket family at 64 attempts with 62 successes and 1 partial failure.
https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/data/launch/R-7.htmlThat year Soyuz-U launched 45 times. I admit not checking independently how many times it launched in other years, but Wikipedia mentioned 47 in 1979 which might be what Elon was referring to.
The Falcon 9 now holds the title of the most launches carried out by a single SLV in a year, with the 60 launches conducted by the Falcon 9 last year.
The Falcon 9 now holds the title of the most launches carried out by a single SLV in a year, with the 60 launches conducted by the Falcon 9 last year.
Falcon 9 in 2022 came close to by itself beating the R-7
family in 1980 in terms of both number of orbital launches (60 vs 64) and number of successful launches (60 vs 62) in a year.
The Falcon 9 now holds the title of the most launches carried out by a single SLV in a year, with the 60 launches conducted by the Falcon 9 last year.
Falcon 9 in 2022 came close to by itself beating the R-7 family in 1980 in terms of both number of orbital launches (60 vs 64) and number of successful launches (60 vs 62) in a year.
Given that so far 61 Falcon 9 launches have been conducted and several more are scheduled to take place in the remaining months of 2023, the Falcon 9 this year is on track to beat the R-7 family in terms of successful orbital launches.
The Falcon 9 now holds the title of the most launches carried out by a single SLV in a year, with the 60 launches conducted by the Falcon 9 last year.
Falcon 9 in 2022 came close to by itself beating the R-7 family in 1980 in terms of both number of orbital launches (60 vs 64) and number of successful launches (60 vs 62) in a year.
Given that so far 61 Falcon 9 launches have been conducted and several more are scheduled to take place in the remaining months of 2023, the Falcon 9 this year is on track to beat the R-7 family in terms of successful orbital launches.
Taking into account the next Falcon 9 launch dates, the R-7 family's record of 62 successful orbital launches will be broken in a week or so. I expect Falcon 9 to have it's 65th launch of the year by the end of the month.
I would even say that there is a chance that by the end of the year SpaceX will successfully launch more Falcon 9s carrying Starlink satellites than the 1980's R-7 record.
Within the past 1 year period (i.e. not a calendar year), Falcon 9 has successfully launched 91 times. I do not have a by-date list of all R-7 launches to perform the same rolling-window analysis on.
Within the past 1 year period (i.e. not a calendar year), Falcon 9 has successfully launched 91 times. I do not have a by-date list of all R-7 launches to perform the same rolling-window analysis on.
In Wikipedia's
list of Falcon launches, I count only 81 Falcon 9 launches and 4 Falcon Heavy launches between September 20th, 2022, and September 20th, 2023. I have to go back to August 19th, 2022, to get 91 Falcon launches (and back to July 24th, 2022, if only counting Falcon 9). A quick look at
skyrocket.de agrees (although it hasn't added today's launch yet).
Within the past 1 year period (i.e. not a calendar year), Falcon 9 has successfully launched 91 times. I do not have a by-date list of all R-7 launches to perform the same rolling-window analysis on.
In Wikipedia's list of Falcon launches, I count only 81 Falcon 9 launches and 4 Falcon Heavy launches between September 20th, 2022, and September 20th, 2023. I have to go back to August 19th, 2022, to get 91 Falcon launches (and back to July 24th, 2022, if only counting Falcon 9). A quick look at skyrocket.de agrees (although it hasn't added today's launch yet).
That's odd, I pulled the data from the Wiki table too.
::EDIT:: Ah, that spits out doubled lines for each FH launch. I'll have to go back and edit the source manually and re-run things.