SpaceX beats 35 year old shuttle record.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Yesterday a SpaceX Falcon 9 was launched from Florida. The first stage was the same one used to launch astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on 30th May. That means the time between launches of that booster was just 51 days. This is a new record for time between launches of a reusable, orbital class  launch vehicle. 

In 1985 NASA launched the space shuttle Atlantis just 54 days after its previous launch, it is this record that SpaceX has broken. It should be noted however that the time between Atlantis landing and being relaunched was just 50 days, and so Atlantis still has a faster turn around, by 1 day.

The previous best by SpaceX was 62 days.

Elon Musk once claimed that a Falcon 9 would be launched twice in one day. SpaceX still have a way to go if they are to achieve this.

[Peter B]

1 hour ago, Waspie_Dwarf said:

Yesterday a SpaceX Falcon 9 was launched from Florida. The first stage was the same one used to launch astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on 30th May. That means the time between launches of that booster was just 51 days. This is a new record for time between launches of a reusable, orbital class  launch vehicle. 

In 1985 NASA launched the space shuttle Atlantis just 54 days after its previous launch, it is this record that SpaceX has broken. It should be noted however that the time between Atlantis landing and being relaunched was just 50 days, and so Atlantis still has a faster turn around, by 1 day.

The previous best by SpaceX was 62 days.

Elon Musk once claimed that a Falcon 9 would be launched twice in one day. SpaceX still have a way to go if they are to achieve this.

That was certainly the impression given about Starship in their promotional video from a few years ago.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

25 minutes ago, Peter B said:

That was certainly the impression given about Starship in their promotional video from a few years ago.

He made the claim about the Falcon 9, when the Block 5 version debuted back in May 2018. He said it would occur sometime in 2019.

https://www.space.com/40581-spacex-reusable-rocket-goal-elon-musk.html

 

Mind you he also said that the Falcon 9 would have a reusable second stage, Crew Dragon would have propulsive landing, Red Dragon would land on Mars in 2018 and that a Crew Dragon would fly tourists around the moon by 2020. All of these things have been dropped, so I take Elon Musk claims with a pinch of salt.