Quote from: steveleach on 12/25/2023 10:04 amQuote from: catdlr on 12/25/2023 03:30 amQuote from: meekGee on 12/25/2023 02:26 amIf I were SpaceX, I would intentionally try to launch on leap seconds, just to mess with people.Also, 2024 is a leap year!!! Extra day extra launch potentials.0.39 extra launches, which rounds down to 0 by banker's rules.It’s probabilistic so it doesn’t round.
Quote from: catdlr on 12/25/2023 03:30 amQuote from: meekGee on 12/25/2023 02:26 amIf I were SpaceX, I would intentionally try to launch on leap seconds, just to mess with people.Also, 2024 is a leap year!!! Extra day extra launch potentials.0.39 extra launches, which rounds down to 0 by banker's rules.
Quote from: meekGee on 12/25/2023 02:26 amIf I were SpaceX, I would intentionally try to launch on leap seconds, just to mess with people.Also, 2024 is a leap year!!! Extra day extra launch potentials.
If I were SpaceX, I would intentionally try to launch on leap seconds, just to mess with people.
Quote from: meekGee on 12/25/2023 02:26 amIf I were SpaceX, I would intentionally try to launch on leap seconds, just to mess with people.You may have to wait a while. Something odd happened to the earth's rotation rate in around 2019 or so and it seems to be better synchronized with the atomic second than it was during the last 3 decades of the 20th century.https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=BulletinB_All-UT1-UTC&id=207(the vertical discontinuities on the plot are the leap second insertions).That said, given the, um, diversity of ways in which leap seconds are dealt with in various distributed systems I'd hope that there would be a lot of testing of leap-second handling if one was expected during a launch. See also https://xkcd.com/2867/
Also, Falcon Heavy has launched as many times in 2023 as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Ariane 5 combined.Falcon 9 has launched 18x as many times.
twitter.com/edwards345/status/1740593001401823272QuoteCongrats to the entire Falcon team at @SpaceX on a record breaking 96 launches in 2023! I remember when @elonmusk first threw out a goal of 100 launches as a thought experiment, intended to unlock our thinking as to how we might accelerate Falcon across all levels of production and launch. Only a few years later and here we are. I’m so incredibly proud to work with the best team on earth, and so excited to see what we achieve next year.Edit to add:https://twitter.com/spaceabhi/status/1740596104729924067QuoteYep, gotta admit that even in 2016 or 2017 most people polled inside SpaceX would find it difficult to believe we'd achieve this by 2023. The number of things that had to be practiced and perfected is staggering. No private company is within a decade of this accomplishment.
Congrats to the entire Falcon team at @SpaceX on a record breaking 96 launches in 2023! I remember when @elonmusk first threw out a goal of 100 launches as a thought experiment, intended to unlock our thinking as to how we might accelerate Falcon across all levels of production and launch. Only a few years later and here we are. I’m so incredibly proud to work with the best team on earth, and so excited to see what we achieve next year.
Yep, gotta admit that even in 2016 or 2017 most people polled inside SpaceX would find it difficult to believe we'd achieve this by 2023. The number of things that had to be practiced and perfected is staggering. No private company is within a decade of this accomplishment.
Good to end this thread by confirming that from the outset Elon was indeed talking about Falcon launches, and did not include Starship test flights in this discussion:https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1740628828135756267?s=46&t=eQrUtTJk6IAt4GyTzH7J2w96 flights is an excellent achievement. I predict next year’s 144 flights will be the high point of the Falcon era, after which Starship flights will gradually start eroding Falcon launch cadence.
https://twitter.com/bellikozan/status/1740572138279665895QuoteAlso, Falcon Heavy has launched as many times in 2023 as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Ariane 5 combined.Falcon 9 has launched 18x as many times.Ok, so Falcon launch cadence is increasingly massively as other launchers reach/near end of life, but still a fun observation.
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/29/2023 07:53 amhttps://twitter.com/bellikozan/status/1740572138279665895QuoteAlso, Falcon Heavy has launched as many times in 2023 as Atlas V, Delta IV, and Ariane 5 combined.Falcon 9 has launched 18x as many times.Ok, so Falcon launch cadence is increasingly massively as other launchers reach/near end of life, but still a fun observation.Falcon in 2023 only launched a couple times less than Atlas V has in its entire ~20 year service life… tonnage was higher btw.
Good to end this thread by confirming that from the outset Elon was indeed talking about Falcon launches, and did not include Starship test flights in this discussion:https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1740628828135756267?s=46&t=eQrUtTJk6IAt4GyTzH7J2w96 flights is an excellent achievement. I predict next year’s 144 flights will be the high point of the Falcon era, after which Starship flights will gradually start eroding Falcon launch cadence.
Quote from: M.E.T. on 12/29/2023 10:06 amGood to end this thread by confirming that from the outset Elon was indeed talking about Falcon launches, and did not include Starship test flights in this discussion:https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1740628828135756267?s=46&t=eQrUtTJk6IAt4GyTzH7J2w96 flights is an excellent achievement. I predict next year’s 144 flights will be the high point of the Falcon era, after which Starship flights will gradually start eroding Falcon launch cadence.Who cares if he did (and he didn’t; he’s replying to a tweet which specifies Falcon)? Elon doesn’t define reality. SpaceX overall still achieved 98 launches.98 SpaceX launches. 96 Falcon launches. This is literally what happened. How can there still be arguments about it.
SpaceX closes out record-breaking 2023, prepares for more records in 2024
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1732671139862753644?s=46&t=eQrUtTJk6IAt4GyTzH7J2w
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1564994769826172929
