{"id":178925,"date":"2023-12-23T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/spacex-makes-history-with-a-19th-reuse-of-a-falcon-9-rocket"},"modified":"2023-12-23T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T19:34:52","slug":"spacex-makes-history-with-a-19th-reuse-of-a-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/spacex-makes-history-with-a-19th-reuse-of-a-falcon-9-rocket","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX makes history with a 19th reuse of a Falcon 9 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xY96v0OIcK4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The company launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket that had flown 18 times before, breaking its own record for the most flights by a single booster.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX has achieved a <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/culture\/spacex-gets-green-light-to-test-its-starlink-mobile-services\" title=\"new milestone\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">new milestone<\/a> in its quest to reuse rockets and reduce the cost of spaceflight. The company launched 23 Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket that had flown 18 times before, breaking its record for the most flights by a single booster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Falcon 9\u2019s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing the first 19th launch and landing of a booster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1738434850233938355\/video\/1\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/WoVx0R0Esj\">pic.twitter.com\/WoVx0R0Esj<\/a> <\/a>\u2014 SpaceX (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\">@SpaceX<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1738434850233938355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The historic launch occurred from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday (December 23) at 12:33 am EST (0533 GMT). The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage, which debuted in May 2020 on the Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission that carried astronauts for the first time, still bore the faded NASA \u2018worm\u2019 logo from that occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket that had flown 18 times before, breaking its own record for the most flights by a single booster. SpaceX has achieved a new milestone in its quest to reuse rockets and reduce the cost of spaceflight. The company launched 23 Starlink [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178925","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}