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SpaceX is about to launch Falcon 9 for the 3rd time.

SpaceX has flown a few Block 5 rockets twice, but they have never attempted to fly one of these rockets for the third time.

However, according to Lars Hoffman the senior director of government sales for Spacex, this may be happening quite soon

SpaceX has technically re-used the Falcon 9 rocket a total of 16 times, but they have never flown a single first stage more than twice. But Elon Musk being the innovator he is, released a new version of the Falcoln 9 rocket in May of this year called Block 5, that is designed to be re-used multiple times.

Hoffman said: “We’ve launched Falcon 9 over 60 times. We’ve landed our first stage booster 30 times now. And relaunched 16 times. We’re about to relaunch a booster for the third time. So we’re turning this into routine access to space. High-reliability, higher-performance, lower-cost access to space; that opens it up to everybody.”

 

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