Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
's company has already launched 74 orbital missions in 2023, more than any private outfit ever has in a single year. But these next 2.5 months should see even more spaceflight action.
"This year, we're going to attempt to fly 100 flights," Bill Gerstenmaier, the vice president of build and flight reliability at"As we look to next year, we want to increase that flight rate to about 12 flights per month, or 144 flights," he added during the hearing, which was called"Promoting Safety, Innovation and Competitiveness in U.S. Commercial Human Space Activities.
But SpaceX is certainly capable of meeting that latter number. The company has launched two missions in a single day multiple times; this past March, for example, it sent two of its Falcon 9 rockets skywardinternet-satellite megaconstellation, which currently consists of about 5,000 operational satellites. But SpaceX has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink satellites, and the company has applied for approval for another 30,000 spacecraft on top of that.
Sen. Ted Cruz decried the"bureaucratic red tape" that's keeping Starship groundbound at the moment. Gerstenmaier voiced similar sentiments, stressing that frequent test flights, and frequent design iterations based on analyses of those flights, are key tenets of SpaceX's development strategy. "It's a shame when our hardware is ready to fly and we're not able to go fly because of regulations or re-review," Gerstenmaier said."We need to be safe, we need to protect the environment; we don't dismiss those. But we need to fly at the fastest pace that we can do hardware development to do this active development process and this test flight experience that we've described.
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