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The ten flight milestone was first achieved by Booster B1051 on the Starlink 27 mission in 2021. [4] All boosters in Block 4 and earlier have been retired, expended, or lost. The last flight of a Block 4 booster was in June 2018. Since then all boosters in the active fleet are Block 5. Booster names are a B followed by a four-digit number.
Falcon 9 B1060 was a Falcon 9 first-stage booster manufactured and operated by SpaceX.It was the senior active booster vehicle for the company [1] since the demise of B1058 on 25 December 2023 during transit back to shore, until being expended for the Galileo FOC FM25 & FM27 mission on 28 April 2024. [2]
The Super Heavy booster is reusable, and is recovered via large arms on the tower capable of catching the descending vehicle. [7] As of January 2025, 0 boosters have been refurbished and subsequently flown at least a second time, though 2 boosters, Booster 12 and Booster 14, has been recovered after flight, with Booster 12 having damage to one ...
Booster 4 was the first vehicle intended to fly on Starship's Flight Test 1. It was the first Super Heavy to be stacked with Starship, [80] and conducted multiple cryogenic tests before being retired in favor of Booster 7 and Ship 24. [81] Booster 7 being tested on the orbital launch pad at Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas in February 2023.
The booster was the first and only Falcon 9 booster to feature NASA's worm logo and meatball insignia, the former of which was reintroduced after last being used in 1992. [1] The booster was destroyed several days after successfully landing on the autonomous spaceport drone ship Just Read the Instructions on 23 December 2023.
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.33% and have been launched 445 times over 15 years, resulting in 442 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
Originally scheduled to launch on 2 March 2020, the launch date was pushed back due to a second stage engine failure. SpaceX decided to swap out the second stage instead of replacing the faulty part. [22] It was SpaceX's third flight of the Dragon C112 and the last launch of the Cargo Dragon spacecraft. 83 18 March 2020 12:16 [23] F9 B5 B1048.5
Falcon Heavy (FH) is a super heavy lift space launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle comprising three Falcon 9 first stages: a reinforced center core, and two additional side boosters.