SpaceX started 2017 at one of its lowest points ever. The company hadn’t launched a single rocket since September 1st, 2016, when a Falcon 9 exploded on a Florida launch pad as it was being fueled. The mishap destroyed both the rocket and the satellite the vehicle was supposed to carry to space — prompting many to question the reliability of the company’s hardware. But in January, just four and a half months after the accident, SpaceX was ready to convince the world that it had figured out the problem and was prepared to safely return to spaceflight again.
Its first launch on January 14th was a success, and ever since that crucial return-to-flight mission, SpaceX has shown that it has firmly moved on from the September failure. In fact,...
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