The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now
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SpaceX高级官员确认，公司今年将大幅减少从佛罗里达州的发射次数，直至星舰火箭投入使用。过去十年，佛州太空海岸因猎鹰9号火箭的高频发射成为全球最繁忙的太空港，去年共执行165次任务，其中约75%用于部署星链卫星。自今年1月起，SpaceX已增加从加州范登堡太空军基地的发射活动，且这一趋势将在年内持续加强。
SpaceX made Florida's Space Coast home to the world's busiest spaceport for a decade, but that will change this year. The company is significantly cutting the number of launches from Florida until Starship arrives, a senior SpaceX official confirmed Tuesday.
The Falcon 9 rocket has been SpaceX's workhorse, routinely launching batches of satellites for the company's Starlink network, primarily from launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There were 165 Falcon 9 launches last year—about three flights per week—and about 75 percent of them carried Starlink satellites.
This year is different. SpaceX has launched more missions from its West Coast launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California since January, and this trend will amplify for the rest of the year.
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