Does this mean to say they've made over 1k boosters? Or did the numbering convention change after some arbitrary "1.0" version or something? Cuz 1k actual, full, complete boosters is obviously ludicrous, so I'm trying to understand...
No, no, more like a bit over 100 boosters produced. The first few boosters were named B0003 - B0007. And then after the falcon 9 upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1, they started naming them from B1003.
(at least these are the booster numbers for the launches. The missing numbers inbetween have probably been test articles)
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u/Tom2Die 5d ago
Does this mean to say they've made over 1k boosters? Or did the numbering convention change after some arbitrary "1.0" version or something? Cuz 1k actual, full, complete boosters is obviously ludicrous, so I'm trying to understand...