SpaceX Planning For One Launch Per Week

(Hawthorne, CA) — Elon Musk’s “SpaceX” is planning for one launch per week this year in what would be a orbital launch record. Panel member Sandra Magnus said in a meeting of a key NASA oversight committee that the private company is planning an “ambitious 52 launch manifest” for 2022. SpaceX completed 31 launches last year to beat the previous record of 26. As a whole, the company was responsible for roughly a fifth of all successful orbital rocket launches last year. They are keeping pace so far, with three successful Falcon Nine launches this month, with another two expected before the end of January.