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With this morning's Starlink mission SpaceX has launched a rocket, on average, every eight days in 2021. If you don't know much about rockets, know this: Such a cadence is jaw-dropping for an orbital rocket, especially a large one.
Newer companies with smaller rockets or suborbital systems often make claims in news releases or investor presentations about such a flight rate, but it is extraordinarily difficult to achieve. Be wary. It's taken an exceptional company, SpaceX, two decades to reach this point.
And I'm sorry, my math was wrong. They're launching every nine days in 2021. The point remains.
I'm looking for the time when they can turn around a rocket in less than 24h
Probably won't happen
Can I find this cool and still be quite worried by their CEO? (and the fact that Starlink is unilateral pollution of the night sky)
Should i try to defend Starlink or you have your opinion and refuse to change your mind given the facts?
Yep. SpaceX is closing in on the Soyuz launch cadence in late 1960s and early 1970s. With much higher reliability, of course.
What were the Soviets putting up there so quickly?
What is strange is out of the last 40 launches, more than 50% of them are Starlink launches. Meaning there is not enough customers to support an increase in launch cadence (even with spacex relative low cost), therefore spaceX has to create their own demand.
Their own demand and their own supply, because they also produce all this satellites SpaceX isn't just a launch provider anymore
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