2024 Launches Easily Break the Previous Record by 29%

SpaceX Falcon launch

The two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. (Image Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph)

December 31, 2024 – A record-breaking year was wrapped up just past midnight on Dec. 31 when the 93rd and last launch of the year lit up the night sky above Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 launch also marked a perfect score for SpaceX which had zero failures of Falcon 9s in the last year.

And the future looks bright for the space industry in Titusville and Brevard County. Space Florida, a public corporation with a state statute that offers creative financing options and infrastructure access to aerospace companies, sees the pace of launches continuing to increase.

Space Florida estimates the state must prepare to support transporting 5,000 metric tons of cargo annually to space by 2035. This scale equates to 219 Falcon 9 launches, 40 Starship launches, 194 ULA Vulcan launches, or 111 New Glenn launches — a testament to the immense growth trajectory of the industry.

Here’s to a new year and a new record of space launches. If past performance is any indication, there is no reason the pace should not continue to take off.

Source: Space Florida ; Florida Today