SpaceX Smashes Its Own Launch Record With 165 Orbital Flights in 2025 Written 2 January 2026

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SpaceX Smashes Its Own Launch Record With 165 Orbital Flights in 2025

SpaceX Starship Flight 11, Monday, Oct 13, 2025, at 7:15 PM ET. | Credit: NASASpaceFlight; YouTube; Framegrab

SPACE reports, “Elon Musk’s company has now set a new mark six years in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly. The record has risen from 25 orbital liftoffs in 2020 to 31 (2021) to 61 (2022) to 96 (2023) to 134 (2024) and, now, to a whopping 165. And that’s not including five non-orbital Starship test flights by SpaceX.”
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