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The last failure in flight was 2015. Since then there were 120 successful launches and no failures. There was one payload lost in 2016 during a static fire test
by imglorp 5y ago
The last failure in flight was 2015. Since then there were 120 successful launches and no failures. There was one payload lost in 2016 during a static fire test.
- throwaway2037 5y agoThanks for the update. Did you get your count from this Wiki page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He... I'm not sure if that is a reliable source. (Please don't read that comment as a general commentary about Wiki!)
- imglorp 5y agoYes, and me neither. But even if they're +/- several, ie how they count success vs failure, it's still a high number.
- panick21_ 5y agoIn terms of rocket launches Wikipedia is very good. I certainty don't know about a better source. Maybe SpaceX has a list public somewhere but I would not sure that is as up to date and detailed as Wikipedia.
- throwaway2037 5y agoReal question: Do you think that Space X (PR) employees primarily manage that Wiki page? It seems possible. No, I don't think that is weird or sinister. All of it could probably be verified with an afternoon of YouTube searches! It seems like something that Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell would publicly discuss / support. Both are quite intellectually direct in their public media appearances (less b/s than most corps).
- panick21_ 5y agoI don't think so. Wikipeida is really good at all other rocket launches too. Pretty much all rockets at least in the West that I have looked up are very up to date. The information of all that is public and the people who maintain those pages are one it. Maybe they have even atomized it.