{"id":129079,"date":"2025-11-12T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129079\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:25:09","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-beats-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-into-the-record-books-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129079\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX beats Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin into the record books yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/14\/us-news\/spacex-launches-the-11th-test-flight-of-its-mega-starship-rocket-with-another-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX<\/a> swooped in Monday to complete Florida\u2019s 94th liftoff of the year, breaking the state\u2019s yearly record for launches in place of Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, which had to scrap its mission last week.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX took the historic spot when it launched the latest batch of its Starlink satellites aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/15\/science\/spacex-falcon-9s-cargo-includes-a-bizarre-mini-model-home-headed-to-the-moon-theres-nothing-like-that-in-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>The effort marked the 94th liftoff from Florida so far this year, a new record that would have gone to<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/15\/us-news\/why-katy-perry-lauren-sanchez-and-the-blue-origin-crew-may-not-actually-be-astronauts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Blue Origin<\/a> on Friday before it was forced to scrub its mission because of poor weather.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX completed Florida\u2019s record-breaking 94th flight of the year Monday night. Joe Marino\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX launch saw the company release its latest batch of Starlink satellites.  Joe Marino\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s launch involved 29 satellites deployed into orbit for Starlink, and while it marked Florida\u2019s 94th flight of the year, it was Falcon 9\u2019s 144th \u2014 a new personal record for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>Rival Blue Origin is now hoping to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/16\/science\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-launches-into-orbit-on-first-test-flight-from-florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its New Glenn rocket<\/a> into orbit Wednesday, which would mark the rocket\u2019s second-ever flight \u2014 and break the state record again.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket is set to launch between 2:50 p.m. to 4:17 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Launch Complex 36, where Blue Origin has invested $1 billion to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>As Musk has done with his SpaceX rockets, Bezos touted his rocket as the future of space flight, with the New Glenn missions aimed at achieving a landmark mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s mission also marked the 144th flight for Elon Musk\u2019s Flacon 9 this year.   POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The billionaires are currently competing over whose commercial space business will lead the historic flight to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s upcoming flight will also include a bit of catch-up. as the company will attempt to land its heavy boosters after the launch, something SpaceX pulled off last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX swooped in Monday to complete Florida\u2019s 94th liftoff of the year, breaking the state\u2019s yearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4536,85,46,3442,141,145,81070,4688,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-129079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-blue-origin","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-nasa","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-space-program","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}