SpaceX 26th Launch in 2022
There is still 9 days left in June 2022, and SpaceX has already completed 26 launches to orbit, although a majority of them are Starlink launches. Not many are aware that this is a very impressive and unprecedented achievement even by a superpower standard, not least a private company. Even NASA at its peak could not have achieved such a feat with the rest of the industry! More impressive is the fact that SpaceX has more than a hundred reuse of its first stage rockets. The most re-flight of a block 5 first stage is 13th times, no other companies or countries have ever gotten up to orbit and back even once with a real payload. Without the governing bodies, SpaceX could have achieved much more. They are like trying to restrain a horse trying to gallop away from a bunch of tortoises. The industry as a whole seemed to have been totally left behind in the technology chase!