For my accompanying blogs, see:
- Reusability, priceless, April 14, 2021
- Commercial launch trends – what do you see? August 22, 2022
- Three graphs and a truck, August 23, 2023
The data, in MS Excel:
What is this graph saying?
SpaceX regularly turns boosters around to fly again in about 40 days. (Lower black trendline.)
SpaceX’s booster reuse climbed steadily but is now plateauing, averaging about 13 reuses per booster. This is a combination of new boosters coming online, pushing the trend line down with zero reuses, purposely expended boosters, and some boosters seeing much more reuse.
What is this graph saying? Most Falcon 9 boosters will be reused fewer than 28 times, but a handful have been used more than that.
Zapata Talks NASA 