SpaceX just completed its 90th Falcon-family launch of 2026
Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg carrying 24 Starlink satellites, successfully deploying all of them into low Earth orbit
Booster B1081 completed its 26th mission and landed on Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific
That is 89 Falcon 9 launches and one Falcon Heavy mission in just seven months
Fury.
My highest-resolution image yet taken of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor 3 engines singing in unison during today's flight test of Booster 20 and Ship 40 from Pad 2 in Starbase, Texas.
📸 - @NASASpaceflight
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SpaceX just completed TWO Falcon 9 launches in only 6 hours and 26 minutes…again
The first mission launched 24 Starlink satellites from California, one day after the previous attempt ended in a last-second abort during engine ignition
SpaceX returned the next day, successfully deployed all 24 satellites and safely landed the Falcon 9 booster on the droneship less than nine minutes after liftoff
Then another Falcon 9 launched from Florida, successfully deploying Northrop Grumman’s Mission Robotic Vehicle and three Mission Extension Pods into geosynchronous transfer orbit
The MRV is a robotic satellite-servicing vehicle designed to install life-extension pods and support inspection, relocation, repairs, upgrades and other in-orbit servicing
Two launches. Two coasts. All within less than seven hours
SpaceX’s launch cadence is operating at a level the rest of the industry is still trying to understand
Since additional performance is required to deliver the MRV-MEP payloads to geostationary transfer orbit, this is the 32nd and final flight for this Falcon 9 first stage booster
SpaceX continues to target Thursday, pending successful testing of Booster 20 on Pad 2 on Wednesday. The booster has undergone engine swapouts following last week's T-0 abort, with removed engines spotted at the McGregor test site.
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Booster 21 went through round 3 of cryo testing at Massey's last night...and this one was MUCH more like what we are used to seeing...with a full load and lots of venting as pressures were altered before a full detank.
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