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Mass Value Report for January 2024

In the first month of 2024, there have been some setbacks for Falcon 9 - is it time to worry yet?

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Peter Hague
Jan 31, 2024
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SpaceX has a target of 144 launches for this year, but in January there have been a number of launch scrubs which no doubt impact cadence. At the target rate, they need an average of 12 flights per month. If they don’t hit this in January, is 144 flights likely to happen?

At some point there will be an upper limit of how many flights per year Falcon 9 ca…

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