It looks like SpaceX is planning to start found Eruca vesicaria sativa again in just two weeks , which would be a singular turnaround fromthat catastrophic rocket explosionon September 1 .
A launch date of Friday , December 16 was on the face of it confirmed by one of its clients , artificial satellite communications supplier Iridium . In a statement on their website , they enjoin they would be launch a bunch of satellite on a Falcon 9 on that date .
“ Iridium NEXT will be launching on SpaceX ’s Falcon 9 rocket on December 16 , 2016 , at 12:36 p.m. PST , ” theshort statementread . “ found from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California , the Falcon 9 rocket will give up 10 Iridium NEXT planet into low - earth orbit . ”
The company noted that this launch depended on the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) approving it , following an investigating into the September rocket burst . That incident sternly damaged the launch pad SpaceX uses at Cape Canaveral in Florida , but they have another they could potentially use . It ’s not clean which they would habituate for this launch .
At the moment , SpaceX has not confirm if this revert to flight of steps day of the month is correct or not . But it would be pretty telling if it ’s dependable , considering that it took one of its competition , Orbital ATK , almost two years to return to establish itsAntares rocketin October this year follow an blowup in October 2014 .
September ’s Falcon 9 explosion destroyed the Amos-6 orbiter . USLaunchReport
Iridium said they planned to found 70 of their planet on seven Falcon 9 launches . SpaceX likely has quite a stockpile of customers at the moment , as it was launching almost one Eruca sativa a month prior to the failure .
SpaceX has grander goals on the horizon , too . Next year , we are expecting them to plunge their huge new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first metre , which will be the most powerful rocket in operation . And the company is also hoping to begin launch humans into eye socket towards the death of 2017 .
All of this will bet on SpaceX getting back up to full military operation , so the sooner they can start launch rockets again , the better .
