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
What is this data and this complicated graph saying?
SpaceX has shown they can steadily turn around the same booster to fly again, reused, in about 2 months.
SpaceX has been reusing each booster about 10 times. This is a combination of new boosters coming online (zero reuses, pushing the average down) and older boosters being reused (pushing the average up.) This is consistent with the view that SpaceX has manufactured about 10 new boosters in about the last 100 launches.