Advertisement Continue reading the main storyOver the next 14 months, the company plans six additional Falcon 9 launches to deploy 60 more Iridium satellites that will completely replace the constellation. The explosion and subsequent four-month grounding created a backlog of launches, including cargo missions for NASA to the International Space Station. September’s explosion was SpaceX’s second failure in 15 months; a Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA cargo disintegrated in flight in June 2015. By reusing instead of throwing away rocket boosters, SpaceX hopes to significantly reduce the cost of launches. SpaceX projected that current rocket launching business would quintuple in revenue, to $5 billion, in 2025.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2017 18:01 UTC