Starship exploded during a liquid oxygen vent on its most recent test flight.
Last year was unquestionably the best year in SpaceX’s history, CEO Elon Musk told his employees during an all-hands meeting in South Texas last week.
There were 96 flights of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, plus the first two test flights of the enormous new Starship rocket. In 2024, SpaceX said it aims for more than 140 launches of the Falcon rocket family. There may be up to 10 Starship test flights this year, according to the NASA official who manages the agency’s contract with SpaceX to develop Starship into a human-rated Moon lander.
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