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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has set a record for most consecutive successes

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A Falcon 9 rocket launches on a pillar of fire in January 2022.

Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches on a pillar of fire in January 2022. (credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX has been launching Falcon 9 rockets thick and fast of late. With 10 launches since the beginning of December, the company has flown rockets at a rate greater than one mission a week. And another launch could happen as soon as today, shortly after noon (18: 13 UTC), with a Starlink satellite launch planned from Florida.

Lost amid the flurry of activity are some pretty significant milestones for the Falcon 9 rocket, which made its debut a little more than a decade ago.

Number of launches

The Falcon 9 skyrocket has now launched a total associated with 139 times. Of those, one mission failed, the launch of an International Space Station supply objective for NASA, in June 2015. Not included in this launch tally is the pre-flight failure of a Falcon 9 explode and its Amos-6 satellite during a static fire test in September 2016.

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