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With seven first-stage booster landings at sea and on land, SpaceX has now shown that it can bring rockets home. The big question remains whether it has the capacity to refurbish those rockets on a timely and cost-effective basis before flying them again.

The next step toward this goal is re-flying a used booster. During an interview this week with CBS News, the company's chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, said SpaceX plans to do that for the first time in "a month or so" with the launch of the SES-10 communications satellite.

As for full reusability, in which a rocket lands, is refurbished, and flies again shortly thereafter, Shotwell said SpaceX remains "a couple of years away from that." However, the company is clearly planning to collect a lot of first stage boosters. SpaceX is nearing permission to expand from 1 to 3 landing pads in Florida to accommodate the return of three boosters from the Falcon Heavy rocket—at once.

 

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