{"id":442824,"date":"2022-04-30T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=442824"},"modified":"2022-04-30T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T05:50:08","slug":"spacex-reuses-rocket-booster-only-three-weeks-after-previous-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/442824-spacex-reuses-rocket-booster-only-three-weeks-after-previous-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX reuses rocket booster only three weeks after previous launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX yesterday launched a Falcon 9 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl4-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rocket<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that flew earlier this month, marking the fastest turnaround yet for the company in refurbishing a previously flown booster.<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage booster that took 53 of the company\u2019s Starlink satellites to orbit Friday last launched on April 8 for the Axiom Space Inc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-08\/spacex-launches-first-private-astronaut-mission-to-space-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>private crew<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0flight to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>It was the booster\u2019s sixth flight overall and the sixth SpaceX launch in April.<\/p>\n<p>The company lands its boosters on a drone ship at sea, or near the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-day span shaves nearly a week off Space Exploration Technologies Corp.\u2019s previous 27-day record for processing a flown booster.<\/p>\n<p>The Elon Musk-founded company has decreased the amount of work needed to process its boosters for reflight given SpaceX\u2019s rapid launch rate, including 16 launches in the first four months of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Benji Reed, a SpaceX engineer who oversees the company\u2019s human spaceflight programs, said Thursday at a commercial space conference that a high flight rate for rockets is critical to achieving a robust space economy because a frequent launch schedule \u201clets you learn, lets you grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow often does an airplane take off on this planet?\u201d Reed asked on a panel at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics event. \u201cThat\u2019s how often we should be going to the stars. That\u2019s what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/441358-south-african-and-australian-telescopes-combine-power-to-crack-mystery-of-spooky-rings.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South African and Australian telescopes combine power to crack mystery of spooky rings<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX yesterday launched a Falcon 9 rocket\u00a0that flew earlier this month, marking the fastest turnaround yet for the company in refurbishing a previously flown booster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":442826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[34625,11375,48987],"class_list":["post-442824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}