At the beginning of 2022, Musk's SpaceX space launch momentum is very strong, only February 3, they have used the "Falcon" 9 recoverable rocket, successfully carried out 5 orbital stage launches, sending 205 satellites into space. While other U.S. space units have only carried out one orbital-level launch, the mainland has launched 1 long 2-din and 1 long 4-C, and there has been a non-orbital-class private "Xingtian" rocket launch, and Russia's first month of 2022 has achieved 0.
Of the 5 Falcon 9, the 10-lot B1058 rocket launched on January 13, 2022, is another "carpooling" business, while sending 105 satellites from 29 customers in 17 countries into sun-synchronous orbit, including 44 Planet's SuperDove Earth observation satellites, which is already SpaceX's third "carpooling" business, the first two "carpooling", SpaceX sent a total of 231 satellites into sun-synchronous orbit.
So far, SpaceX has had 4 Falcon 9 rocket launches and recoveries that have reached the 10 "mark", they are B1049, which will perform the 10th launch mission on September 14, 2021; B1051, the 10th launch mission on May 9, 2021, and the 11th launch mission on December 18, 2021; B1058, the 10th launch mission on January 13, 2022; B1060, The 10th launch mission on January 19, 2022, shows that Musk's recoverable rockets are really mature.
So far, the entire "Falcon" 9 has a total of 56 rockets, of which only 6 are brand new rockets, 6 have undergone a launch, and the others are all second-hand and N-hand rockets. At present, SpaceX's own "Starlink" satellite launches, all with the most reused rockets, including 10 hands and 11 hands, and even manned spaceflight, all using N hands, only some extremely valuable tasks, such as the US military's reconnaissance satellites, using new rocket launches.
Perform a second-hand Falcon 9 rocket inspired by 4 manned tour missions
According to the specific model to divide, of the 56 "Falcon" 9 boosters, F9 has 18, FH type 10, full thrust version 19, Block4 type 7, heavy "Falcon" test and core 2, these rockets carried out a total of 139 launches, failed 8 times, successfully recovered 105 times, the remaining 34 times there are recovery failures, there are also no recovery at all. (This set of data is very precious, and no one has counted it in China at present)
It is worth mentioning that when the 138th launch of "Falcon" 9, that is, the launch of the Italian Space Agency's CSG-2 Earth observation satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit on January 31, 2022, someone on the ground took a clear picture of the rocket's first and second stage separation, the second stage ignition accelerated forward, the first stage turned back, two flips, one acceleration, one deceleration, and finally pushed back, landing steadily, it is really too sci-fi, and the only thing that can be compared with it is the cloud picture of the "Falcon" 9 rocket filmed before.
It's so sci-fi
Twilight effect when Falcon 9 is launched
However, we should also note that Falcon 9 has carried out many secret military launch missions in the past two years, such as GPS IIIA-03, 04 and 05 navigation satellites launched by the U.S. Air Force into mid-Earth orbit on June 30, November 5, 2020, and June 17, 2020; ANIS-II communication satellite launched by the South Korean Army into geosynchronous orbit on July 20, 2020; and ANIS-II communication satellite launched into geosynchronous orbit by the South Korean Army on July 20, 2020; NROL-108 spy satellite launched into geosynchronous orbit by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Agency. Entering 2022, on February 2, SpaceX launched an NROL-87 spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Agency with a brand new Falcon 9 rocket. Coupled with previous missile early warning satellite launch contracts and rumors of increasing the military potential of the "Starlink" constellation, Musk is inextricably linked to the US military and other violent state agencies.