US set new record with 21 commercial launches in June, FAA says

美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）称，6月美国商业航天发射达21次，创单月新高

Private spaceflight continues its upward trajectory.

私人航天保持持续上升态势。

American companies launched 21 commercial space missions in June 2025, which was a new record for a single month, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）数据显示，2025年6月美国企业共执行21次商业航天发射任务，创下单月最高纪录。

The old record of 20 was set in November 2024.

此前的单月纪录为2024年11月创下的20次发射。

"Operations during the record month include 21 launches conducted by four operators: Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance," FAA officials said in an emailed statement.

美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）在官方声明中表示："创纪录月份内的发射活动共包含21次发射任务，由四家运营商完成，分别是蓝色起源（Blue Origin）、火箭实验室（Rocket Lab）、美国太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）以及联合发射联盟（United Launch Alliance）。"

"These occurred in California, Florida, Texas and New Zealand, and involved orbital, suborbital and commercial human spaceflight missions," they added. (California-based Rocket Lab's primary launch site is on New Zealand's North Island.)

美国联邦航空管理局补充道："这些发射任务分别在加利福尼亚州、佛罗里达州、德克萨斯州和新西兰完成，任务类型包括轨道发射、亚轨道发射以及商业载人航天飞行。"（总部位于加州的火箭实验室主要发射场设在新西兰北岛。）

SpaceX was by far the busiest of the four operators, launching 15 of the month's 21 missions. Twelve of those 15 flights were devoted to building out the company's Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.

在这四家运营商中，美国太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）的发射活动远比其他三家更为密集，该公司在当月21次发射任务中完成了15次。值得注意的是，这15次发射中有12次都是用于部署其“星链”宽带互联网星座，这些卫星均被送入近地轨道。

June continued a very active 2025 for SpaceX, which has launched 81 missions so far this year. The company is therefore on pace to break its single-year record of 134 orbital liftoffs, which was set in 2024. (Those numbers don't count the suborbital test flights of SpaceX's new Starship megarocket, which launched four times in 2024 and has flown three times so far this year.)

2025年6月延续了美国太空探索技术公司今年以来的高频发射态势。截至目前，该公司本年度已执行81次发射任务，按此节奏有望打破其2024年创下的134次轨道发射年度纪录。（上述统计未包含SpaceX新型“星舰”超重型火箭的亚轨道测试飞行——该火箭2024年进行过4次试射，今年迄今已完成3次。）

SpaceX was also responsible for one of June's two human spaceflight missions — Ax-4, which sent four private astronauts toward the International Space Station on June 25.

在6月份执行的两项载人航天任务中，美国太空探索技术公司承担了其中一项——6月25日发射的“公理4号”（Ax-4）任务，将四名商业航天员送往国际空间站。

The month's other crewed mission was NS-33, a suborbital tourist flight by Blue Origin that launched and landed on June 29.

当月另一项载人任务为蓝色起源（Blue Origin）执行的“新谢泼德33号”（NS-33）亚轨道太空旅游飞行，该任务于6月29日完成发射并安全返回。