![]() Partnerships: the Artemis programme is one of NASA's first large-scale collaborations with commercial companies such as SpaceX and Boeing.Technology: from rockets to spacesuits, the technologies currently being developed are designed to pave the way for future deep-space missions.Equality: to land the first woman and first person of colour on the lunar surface.That means establishing bases both in lunar orbit and on the Moon's surface – although the primary goal for now still involves returning humans to the Moon by the middle of the decade. Instead its goal is to go to the Moon 'and stay there'. ![]() SpaceX founder Elon Musk has suggested the company will attempt as many as 100 launches in 2023, a total that likely include its Starship vehicle, whose first orbital launch is expected some time this year.NASA is not simply aiming to repeat the feats of the Apollo missions with Artemis. SpaceX, whose 61 launches in 2022 were nearly double the 31 launches it conducted in 2021, will attempt to set another launch record in 2023. That includes Europe, which went from 11 launches in 2017 to 6 in 2022, and Japan, which had seven launches in 2017 but only a single, unsuccessful Epsilon launch in 2022. With the exception of New Zealand, which went from the first Rocket Lab Electron launch in 2017 to nine in 2022, other countries saw flat or reduced launch activity over the last five years. SpaceX is responsible for much of that growth, having gone from 18 launches in 2017 to 61 in 2022, while Chinese launches increased from 18 in 2017 to 64 in 2022. In 2017 there were 86 successful orbital launches in 90 attempts. Orbital launch activity has doubled in just the last five years. A total of 179 launches were successful, compared to 136 in 2021. It comes after a record 2022, when there were 186 orbital launch attempts, 40 more than 2021. ![]() Transporter-6 was the first orbital launch globally in 2023. All of SpaceX’s Transporter missions for 2023 are full, the company said then, although last-minute opportunities may arise. The company said in August that it continues to see strong demand for the services despite the rise in small launch vehicles that offer dedicated launch options for smallsats. Transporter-6 is the sixth in a series of smallsat rideshare missions by SpaceX, which performed the first two Transporter missions in 2021 and three in 2022. They include two ION vehicles from D-Orbit, the second Vigoride tug from Momentus and Launcher’s first Orbiter vehicle. Several of the payloads on Transporter-6 are orbital transfer vehicles that will later deploy satellites.
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