SpaceX Cleared To Boost Flight Rate At Vandenberg

SpaceX Caption: SpaceX launched 46 times from Vandenberg SFB last year, closing its 2024 West Coast manifest with the Dec. 28 launch of Starlink 11-3.

SpaceX launched 46 times from Vandenberg SFB last year, closing its 2024 West Coast manifest with the Dec. 28 launch of Starlink 11-3.

Credit: SpaceX
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to increase the number of Falcon 9 flights from Vandenberg SFB, California, from 36 to up to 50 operations per year, although in 2024 it launched nearly that number anyway. “Last year, SpaceX requested launching up to an additional 14 times just for calendar year 2024,”...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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