Flying eight out of every fifteen days, and using three shuttle every flight day, the pace of our launches will be unprecedented.
This implies that there will be twenty–four flights every fifteen days, with six fifteen–day periods every Quarter. This gives us 144 spaceflights lifting off from Spaceport America every Quarter.
Table 1 breaks down the different types of payloads the Space Shuttle has to fly:
Kindly note that the almost three–fourths of all Space Shuttle flights for the Quarter (74.3%) is rocket propellant. The rest of the flights are roughly evenly split between passengers and cargo.
Since there are four Quarters every fiscal year, we intend to fly an annual total of 576 flights.
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