{"id":10674,"date":"2022-07-23T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/07\/23\/spacex-just-broke-its-annual-launch-record-and-its-only-july\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:30:49","slug":"spacex-just-broke-its-annual-launch-record-and-its-only-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/07\/23\/spacex-just-broke-its-annual-launch-record-and-its-only-july\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX just broke its annual launch record \u2014 and it\u2019s only July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/22\/23273077\/spacex-falcon-9-launch-record-2022-32-high-cadence<\/a>
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This afternoon, SpaceX successfully launched its 32nd Falcon 9 mission of 2022, officially breaking the company\u2019s own record for orbital launches conducted in a single year. And since it\u2019s only July, there\u2019s still plenty of year left to push that record even higher.<\/p>\n

SpaceX has been steadily increasing its launch cadence each year \u2014 aside from a dip in 2019. For 2021, the company pulled off 31 launches, the most it had ever done, which also made SpaceX the most prolific American launch provider by far. <\/p>\n

At the beginning of 2022, SpaceX set an incredibly ambitious goal of launching 52 missions<\/a> over the course of the year. That number was revealed by a NASA safety advisory panel in January, with a word of caution that SpaceX should still strive to maintain safety amid the increased pace. \u201cNASA and SpaceX will have to be watchful during 2022 that they\u2019re not victims of their success,\u201d Sandy Magnus, a former NASA astronaut and member of NASA\u2019s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, said during the January meeting.<\/p>\n

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