{"id":132844,"date":"2021-12-22T02:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-lands-100th-falcon-booster"},"modified":"2021-12-22T02:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T10:22:55","slug":"spacex-lands-100th-falcon-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-lands-100th-falcon-booster","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX lands 100th Falcon booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-lands-100th-falcon-booster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exactly six years after its first successful recovery, SpaceX has landed a Falcon booster for the 100th time.<\/p>\n<p>On December 21st, 2015, the first Falcon 9 V1.2 Full Thrust (Block 1) rocket lifted off from SpaceX\u2019s Cape Canaveral LC-40 launch pad on the company\u2019s return-to-flight mission after a catastrophic in-flight failure just six months prior. Unwilling as ever to waste an opportunity, no matter how important the mission, SpaceX \u2013 on top of debuting a major Falcon 9 upgrade \u2013 chose to take advantage of the return to flight to attempt to land a Falcon booster back on land for the first time ever. Ultimately, on top of successfully deploying multiple Orbcomm OG2 communications satellites in orbit for a paying customer, Falcon 9 booster B1019 sailed through its boostback, reentry, and landing burns without issue. About nine minutes after liftoff, the rocket ultimately touched down on a concrete \u201clanding zone\u201d just a few miles from where it lifted off with uncanny ease relative to SpaceX\u2019s numerous failed attempts in the ~18 months prior.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly six years later, on December 21st, 2021, Falcon 9 booster B1069 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Pad 39A with an upgraded, flight-proven Cargo Dragon in tow for SpaceX\u2019s 24th International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission. CRS-24 also marked the company\u2019s 31st and final launch of 2021, representing more successful Falcon launches completed in a single year than SpaceX had even <em>attempted<\/em> in its entire nine-year history up to the point of that first successful booster landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly six years after its first successful recovery, SpaceX has landed a Falcon booster for the 100th time. On December 21st, 2015, the first Falcon 9 V1.2 Full Thrust (Block 1) rocket lifted off from SpaceX\u2019s Cape Canaveral LC-40 launch pad on the company\u2019s return-to-flight mission after a catastrophic in-flight failure just six months prior. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}