Will Falcon boosters have a longer run of sucessful landings than 267?
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On 28 Aug 2024 SpaceX's run of successful booster landings came to an end at 267 with the loss of booster B1062 after its 23rd successful launch.

Will SpaceX beat this record of consecutive successes for Falcon booster landings?

  • B1086's fire on landing reset the streak on 3 Mar 2025, after 73 successes.

Edit: for clarity, a failure during ascent would also invalidate the streak. Anything after engine ignition for launch, where a booster landing was intended.

  • Update 2025-03-03 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Intrinsic Failure Requirement:

    • Generally a failure caused by the rocket (an intrinsic failure) resets the streak.

    • Examples such as weather issues during transport or handling accidents are excluded.

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Yes, B1086 resets the streak of landing success, because this was a failure of the booster intrinsically (not for example a weather problem during transport or a handling accident in port). It's probably the last event in a launch sequence that could invalidate the landing success streak.

B1086 tipped over after landing today. They're calling it a successful landing but imo that resets the streak.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1896562823955947643

After OneWeb 20, the streak is 15 boosters landed.

I think the main question in my own mind is whether SpaceX will ever retire boosters. They don't seem to have a lot of occasions when they get a mission that compels expending the booster, so they just keep launching them. Eventually this hits some kind of hardware resilience limit.

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I'm betting Yes, but there's a strong downward pressure by the Starship here

Currently, 3 days later, their current streak is already at 2.

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