{"id":336,"date":"2023-12-31T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/elon-musks-spacex-smashes-annual-orbital-rocket-launches-record-with-96-missions-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:53:25","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-smashes-annual-orbital-rocket-launches-record-with-96-missions-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/elon-musks-spacex-smashes-annual-orbital-rocket-launches-record-with-96-missions-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX smashes annual orbital rocket launches record with 96 missions in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<article id=\"\" class=\"default__ArticleBody-sc-1jtxuc8-4 gFNdLh custom-article-body-wrapper article-type--standard \">\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/business\/energy\/2023\/12\/17\/oil-and-gas-should-not-be-demonised-in-the-short-term-elon-musk-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>&#8216;s SpaceX has set a record for orbital rocket launches in 2023, carrying out 96 successful missions this year as it continues to dominate the US satellite market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">The California-based company carried out 91 launches with its heavy-duty Falcon 9 rocket and an additional five with the Falcon Heavy, enabling it to easily smash its previous record of 61 launches in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">SpaceX began to top off the record on Thursday night by launching the Falcon Heavy, carrying the US military&#8217;s X-37B spaceplane from Nasa&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center at 1:07am GMT. Just under three hours later, the Falcon 9&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/business\/technology\/2023\/12\/30\/elon-musks-spacex-smashes-annual-orbital-rocket-launches-record-with-96-missions-in-2023\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8216;s SpaceX has set a record for orbital rocket launches in 2023, carrying out 96 successful missions this year as it continues to dominate the US satellite market. The California-based company carried out 91 launches with its heavy-duty Falcon 9 rocket and an additional five with the Falcon Heavy, enabling it to easily smash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-commerce-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}