At 10:47 p.m. EST on September 3, SpaceX’s Starlink 6-12 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, and 21 Starlink satellites were deployed in low-earth orbit about 65 minutes later. This is SpaceX’s 62nd orbit this year. The flight mission also set a new record for the most number of flights in one year, surpassing the 61 in 2022.
Musk also said that SpaceX aims to launch 10 Falcon rockets per month by the end of this year and increase to 12 launches per month next year.
So far this year, SpaceX has launched an average of 1 rocket every 4 days. In August, the Falcon 9 rocket launched as many as 9 times, the highest number of launches in a single month for a single commercial launch service company.
SpaceX has put 5,027 Starlink satellites into orbit so far, according to astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
There are also many batches of Starlink satellites and other customer payloads waiting to be launched on the Falcon 9 in Florida and California, and the 3-core Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch NASA’s Psyche probe from the Kennedy Space Center in October. Ready to study metal-rich asteroids.
In Texas, the SpaceX team is also working hard to integrate the Starship rocket system for a second suborbital test flight, which could happen before the end of this year.
(Source of the first image:Twitter/SpaceX）
