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This weekend, SpaceX will launch three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours
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This weekend, SpaceX will launch three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours

The business is on track to launch nearly twice as many rockets in 2021 as it did the previous year. On Friday and Sunday, Elon Musk's space firm has three orbital missions scheduled.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 9:09 a.m. PT (12:09 p.m. ET) on Friday, bringing another batch of 53 SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.

Another Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:19 a.m. PT less than 24 hours later. For the German military, this mission will send the SARah-1 reconnaissance satellite into orbit.

A third Falcon 9 is set to launch a commercial telecommunications satellite for Globalstar from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida roughly 14 hours later. That mission is scheduled to launch at 9:27 p.m. PT on Saturday (12:27 a.m. ET on Sunday), just over 36 hours after the launch from a few kilometres away on Friday.

This is the quickest three SpaceX launches in the company's history. The Starlink mission can be rewatched below. For live broadcasts of this weekend's additional missions, see CNET Highlights on YouTube or the SpaceX website.

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, has long expressed his desire to be able to spin a Falcon 9 around and relaunch it within hours after landing. This weekend, though, the business is launching three distinct rockets from three different launch pads in three different missions.

While it's not the same as flying the same rocket twice in one day, the company's busy calendar suggests a significant rise in launch frequency in 2022.

If all three missions launch this weekend, the Falcon 9 will have launched 26 times this year. With 31 flights, the firm set a new record for the most launches in a calendar year in 2021. In 2022, SpaceX may be on track to nearly double that figure.

This weekend, the firm has already set a new record. The Falcon 9 booster that launched Friday's Starlink mission flew for the 13th time, setting a new record for Falcon 9 reusability.

While Falcon 9 usage has increased, Musk has stated that he expects to eventually shift Starlink and other missions to the next-generation Starship vehicle. Starship has passed a critical environmental review for its first orbital test flight, although with a slew of mitigations.

Although it's possible that Starship will launch in the next weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration has yet to grant the trip an official launch licence.

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