SpaceX launch MYSTERY: Elon Musk firm hints at RECORD-BREAKING launch target
In 2017, SpaceX demolished its own prior cadence record with 18 launches, a record the company’s exceptional workforce summarily proceeded to annihilate the next year with 21 successful missions.
Most of those 40 missions were the result of competitive, commercial contracts that SpaceX has been extremely successful at winning, thanks largely to the nearly unbeatable pricing of Falcon 9 and Heavy.
As a commercial agent, SpaceX understandably plays its long-term strategy close to the chest, rarely revealing more than a blanket status update.
For example, SpaceX’s website states that it has “has secured over 100 missions to its manifest, representing over $12billion (£9.5billion) on contract.”
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