{"id":133415,"date":"2022-01-01T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/spacex-continues-to-break-reuse-records-and-reach-new-milestones-in-2021"},"modified":"2022-01-01T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T10:22:17","slug":"spacex-continues-to-break-reuse-records-and-reach-new-milestones-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/spacex-continues-to-break-reuse-records-and-reach-new-milestones-in-2021","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX continues to break reuse records and reach new milestones in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-continues-to-break-reuse-records-and-reach-new-milestones-in-20212.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having launched 31 orbital Falcon 9 missions and four suborbital Starship tests, 2021 was the most active year for SpaceX to date. These launches included a number of new reuse records, including flying a booster for the eleventh time, flying the same booster twice in under a month, flying a fairing half for the fifth time, and setting a turnaround record for Dragon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falcon 9 Boosters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2021 brought only two new Falcon 9s into the fleet: B1067 and B1069, which first flew on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2021\/06\/crs22-new-solar-arrays\/\">CRS-22<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2021\/12\/nasa-spacex-crs-24-iss\/\">CRS-24<\/a> missions, respectively. All of the other 29 Falcon 9 missions were flown on flight-proven boosters. These flights included the first eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh flight of a first stage, meeting and surpassing CEO Elon Musk\u2019s stated goal to fly a Falcon 9 first stage 10 times without major refurbishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having launched 31 orbital Falcon 9 missions and four suborbital Starship tests, 2021 was the most active year for SpaceX to date. These launches included a number of new reuse records, including flying a booster for the eleventh time, flying the same booster twice in under a month, flying a fairing half for the fifth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133415","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=133415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}