Musk and Company Eye One Launch Every 2.5 Days

SpaceX, the orbital and deep-space conveyance and exploration concern founded by billionaire boffin and loveable odd-ball Elon Musk, intends to undertake 144 space-launches in 2024—a number at once dizzying and unprecedented in the annals of human extraterrestrial exploit. While 2023 has already seen SpaceX surpass all previous private space-launch records, the company aims to end the year-of-the-water-rabbit with one-hundred such operations in the proverbial books. By way of comparison, SpaceX, in 2021, launched a total of 31 space missions. The following year—by dint, primarily, of the company’s Starlink initiative, SpaceX’s activity nearly doubled to 61 launches.

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