The American company SpaceX has broken the annual record of launches of its own heavy rocket Falcon 9, according to SpaceNews.
The publication notes that in 2021, as of December 3, 27 launches of such media were made. The previous record of 26 Falcon 9 launches was set in 2020.
SpaceNews recalls that “many of the Falcon 9 missions in 2021 carried Starlink payloads.”
In December, the head of SpaceX Elon Musk said on Twitter that the company changed the orbits of some Starlink satellites to reduce the likelihood of collision with space debris.
In November, Musk named the orbital flight date of the Starship reusable transport system, considered the world's largest rocket. According to him, the system could go into orbit in January 2022. This will happen if SpaceX manages to complete the construction of the corresponding launch pad in Texas, carry out the necessary tests of the rocket and obtain permission to launch from the US Federal Aviation Administration.
Last December, ArsTechnica reported that SpaceX in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, broke its own 2018 record for the number of rocket launches.
