The performance stirs the “space twittosphere”. With 100 successful shots in a row, a 16th mission carried out, on Thursday night, since January 2021
(our photo, that of May 15
), that is to say a flight every nine days, SpaceX
"panics the counters"
, report several members of the social network. It is true that the speed with which Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX in 2002, has established himself as the world number one in space, never ceases to surprise. "
Elon Musk orbited his competitors, born in the 1950s, who got out of hand after underestimating him
», Summarizes a specialist.
In just eleven years, since its first flight in June 2010, its reusable flagship rocket, the Falcon 9, has flown 119 missions, only two of which have failed.
SpaceX has proven that its reusable low-cost rocket concept is reliable and mature.
SpaceX successfully launched 25 launches in 2020 (13 in 2019) and put 855 satellites into orbit (out of a total of 1,272 launched by nine countries), or 296 tons
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