⁣After an extended break, we're back to bring you all the latest updates! (Happy New Year!) As we launch into 2024, let's look back at the stellar year SpaceX had in 2023:

📊 Highlights of the year:
• 98 launches - 91 Falcon 9s, 5 Falcon Heavies, and 2 Starships.
• 185 consecutive booster landings.
• Falcon's life leader booster hit a record 19 flights & landings.

Excluding undisclosed payload masses, SpaceX has launched over 1,238 tonnes of payload to orbit that year, or 2.25 times the mass of a Falcon 9 rocket ready for takeoff.

📊 More Records:
• Shortest time between two Falcon launches at 2 hours and 54 minutes.
• B1080 became the first booster to land onshore after launching a crewed mission (Ax-2)
• 294 Falcon launches in total
• 259 booster landings in total.

👥 Elon Musk is set to discuss these achievements and reveal plans for 2024 in a SpaceX company talk he'll be posting publicly.

🚀 Before IFT-3, there's still work to be done: Booster Inspection, Orbital Pad Inspection & repaint, TPS tile replacement on S28, Full Stack WDR, Launch Readiness Review, and FAA Post Launch Investigation conclusion. But SpaceX has been very busy at Starbase. More on that later...

There are good news as Jessica Jensen, the vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, recently stated that:

Hardware for Starship flight three will be ready in January, and that the company expects to receive an FAA license in February.

📅 2024 has barely begun and SpaceX has already completed 2 Starlink launches and one commercial mission. This included the first 6 satellites with direct-to-cell connectivity. Also an exciting launch of a lunar lander is coming up soon.

Stay tuned for more catch-up & news!

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