Update 9:00 p.m. EST: SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket for the Starlink 6-37 mission.

晚上 9:00 更新美国东部时间：SpaceX 成功发射了用于星链 6-37 任务的猎鹰 9 号火箭。

The second time will be the charm for SpaceX as it was able to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Sunday evening among the clouds. It launched at 8:52 p.m. EST (0152 UTC) on Sunday, Jan. 14, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station following a Saturday night scrub.

第二次对 SpaceX 来说将是魅力所在，因为周日晚上它能够在卡纳维拉尔角的云层中发射猎鹰 9 号火箭。它于晚上 8 点 52 分发射。美国东部标准时间 (0152 UTC)，1 月 14 日（星期日），在周六晚上的擦洗之后，从卡纳维拉尔角太空部队站的 40 号航天发射场 (SLC-40) 发射。

The company was launching at a rate of about every four days or so from the Cape towards the end of 2023. However, the launch cadence on the East Coast has slowed somewhat with one of the two Florida-based droneships, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ still on the sidelines after it was damaged during a booster recovery in late December.

到 2023 年底，该公司以大约每四天左右从开普敦发射一次的速度进行发射。然而，东海岸的发射节奏有所放缓，佛罗里达州的两艘无人机中的一艘“只需阅读说明” ”，在 12 月底的助推器恢复过程中受损后，仍处于观望状态。

The first stage booster supporting Saturday evening’s launch, tail number B1073, made its 12 flight on the Starlink 6-37 mission. Its pedigree includes launching ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lander, SpaceX’s 27th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-27) mission and seven Starlink missions.

支持周六晚上发射的第一级助推器，尾号为 B1073，已在星链 6-37 任务中进行了第 12 次飞行。其历史包括发射 ispace 的 HAKUTO-R Mission 1 着陆器、SpaceX 的第 27 次商业补给服务 (CRS-27) 任务和 7 次 Starlink 任务。

A little over eight minutes after liftoff, B1073 landed on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ This was the 57th landing on ASOG and the 264th SpaceX booster landing to date. SpaceX will also endeavor to recover the payload fairings.

升空后 8 分钟多一点，B1073 降落在无人机“A Shortfall of Gravitas”上。这是 ASOG 上的第 57 次着陆，也是 SpaceX 迄今为止的第 264 次助推器着陆。 SpaceX 还将努力回收有效载荷整流罩。

Starlink driving business

The Starlink missions have been and continue to be the cornerstone of SpaceX’s business model. During a company talk published to social media, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said of the 96 Falcon flights in 2023, two-thirds were for Starlink missions. 

星链驱动业务星链任务一直并将继续成为 SpaceX 商业模式的基石。在社交媒体上发布的公司演讲中，SpaceX 创始人埃隆·马斯克表示，在 2023 年猎鹰 96 次飞行中，三分之二用于星链任务。

Musk pointed to the Russian family of Soyuz rockets launching 63 in one year, which was a previous record. Using just the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX launched 63 Starlink missions during 2023. He quipped about the rapidly increasing pace of launches, driven by the broadband internet satellites.

马斯克指出，俄罗斯联盟号火箭系列在一年内发射了 63 次，这是之前的记录。 2023 年，SpaceX 仅使用猎鹰 9 号火箭就发射了 63 次星链任务。他打趣说，在宽带互联网卫星的推动下，发射速度正在迅速加快。

“For a while there, I’d be posting something, like, ‘Is this the launch that just happened or the one that is happening?’ because there were like three launches that happened in the space of a few days,” Musk said. “All [96] made it to obit, all landed. So, just a huge hand for the Falcon team.”

“有一段时间，我会发布一些内容，比如‘这是刚刚发生的发射还是正在发生的发射？’因为几天之内发生了三次发射，”马斯克说。 “所有[96]都被讣告，都着陆了。所以，这对猎鹰团队来说是一个巨大的帮助。”

Musk noted that they will continue to fly the Starlink V2 Minis until the Starship rocket can start launching the full-size Starlink V2 satellites, which Musk said may end up being called Starlink V3.

马斯克指出，他们将继续使用 Starlink V2 Mini 进行飞行，直到 Starship 火箭能够开始发射全尺寸的 Starlink V2 卫星，马斯克表示，这颗卫星最终可能会被称为 Starlink V3。

“The biggest, single goal for Starlink from a technical standpoint is to get the mean latency below 20 milliseconds,” Musk said, adding that he ultimately wants the network to be faster than a ground-based system. Minutes later though, he noted that Starlink wasn’t intended to replace terrestrial internet.

马斯克表示：“从技术角度来看，星链最大的单一目标是使平均延迟低于 20 毫秒。”他补充说，他最终希望该网络比地面系统更快。但几分钟后，他指出星链并不是要取代地面互联网。

“It does really well for low-population density areas, but it is really not going to be competitive in high-density cities,” Musk said. “It’s really low-density situations, which is really where the need is.

“它在人口密度低的地区表现确实很好，但在高密度城市中确实没有竞争力，”马斯克说。 “这确实是低密度的情况，这正是需要的地方。

He also said that they’re working to activate Starlink service in more than half of the world by population by the end of 2024. Musk added that they are also introducing what he called a Starlink Mini user terminal “which can fit in a backpack.”

他还表示，他们正在努力到 2024 年底前在全球一半以上的人口中激活 Starlink 服务。马斯克补充说，他们还推出了他所谓的 Starlink Mini 用户终端，“可以装在背包里”。 ”

Big ambitions

SpaceX expects to far exceed its record launch year in 2023. Musk said that his goal is to reach roughly 150 launches, not including Starship launches. To achieve that, SpaceX needs to ratchet up the turnaround rate for its three launch pads.

雄心勃勃 SpaceX 预计 2023 年的发射次数将远远超过其创纪录的发射次数。马斯克表示，他的目标是达到大约 150 次发射，其中不包括星舰发射。为了实现这一目标，SpaceX 需要提高其三个发射台的周转率。

Musk said they hope to get that rate to under 24 hours by the end of the year. However, he didn’t go into detail on what steps SpaceX will take to achieve that goal from a pad infrastructure level.

马斯克表示，他们希望在今年年底前将这一速度控制在 24 小时以内。不过，他没有详细说明 SpaceX 将采取哪些步骤从发射台基础设施层面实现这一目标。

He did however state that they’re working to double the launch qualifications for their Falcon first stage booster fleet.

不过，他确实表示，他们正在努力将猎鹰第一级助推器舰队的发射资格提高一倍。

“We’ve done a 19th re-flight. We’re now qualifying Falcon 9 to be able to do 40 flights,” Musk said. “And then, let’s not forget fairing recovery because actually, a lot of people don’t realize we recover the fairings as well.”

“我们已经进行了第 19 次复飞。我们现在正在验证猎鹰 9 号能够进行 40 次飞行。”马斯克说道。 “然后，我们不要忘记整流罩的恢复，因为实际上，很多人没有意识到我们也恢复了整流罩。”

Musk said they’ve recovered payload fairings 300 times. They hope to add two more to the number following Saturday night’s mission. 

马斯克表示，他们已经回收有效载荷整流罩 300 次。他们希望在周六晚上的任务之后再增加两名。