SpaceX was just short of its own unofficial 100 rocket launch target in 2023, achieving 98 launches overall. The 2024 target is (again unofficial) of about 130-150 launches, or launch activity about every 2.6 days.

SpaceX managed:
• 2 Starship launches
• 5 Falcon Heavy launches
• 91 Falcon 9 launches
• 98 launches in total

The current manifest includes 5,650 Starlinks launched of which 5,232 are working according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

The 2024 launch cycle starts again today [January 2nd] with a launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California (at 6.13pm Pacific time/02.13am UTC on January 3rd) of a batch of Starlink satellites. The cargo will include six Starlinks with direct-to-cell connectivity. It will be the 301st SpaceX mission, and the 287th for the Falcon 9 fleet.

On January 3rd there is a scheduled Florida launch of the important Ovzon 3 communications satellite for the Swedish telecommunications business. Ovzon 3 is designed to meet the demand for increased mobile broadband connectivity in under-served regions.

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