SPACEX

There are five finalists remaining for the Google Lunar X Prize, a contest for privately-owned crafts to land on the surface of the moon. They have until the end of the year to land on the lunar surface.

The Jan. 30 launch is expected to be one of the last times — if not the last time — SpaceX would use an expendable Falcon 9 booster.

The private space launch company made a successful return to flight of its Falcon 9 rocket Saturday, when it put 10 Iridium NEXT satellites in orbit.

Saturday’s successful launch — the first since the Sept. 1 disaster — puts the company back on track toward fulfilling its space ambitions.

All eyes will be on SpaceX as it is set to launch another Falcon 9 rocket Saturday.

The company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit for the communications company Iridium on Saturday. This will be SpaceX's first launch since Sept.1.

The launch, scheduled to take place Monday, was rescheduled to Jan. 14 due to a forecast of heavy winds and rains at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The Federal Aviation Administration gave its approval Friday for the private space launch company to resume flights.

The company originally planned to resume flights in December 2016, and later pushed the date to Jan. 8, but will now fly some time next week at the earliest.

SpaceX plans to launch this weekend after a four month grounding.

The contracts, announced under NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program, bring the total number of missions awarded to SpaceX and Boeing to six each.

The company said it had identified the cause of the Sept. 1 Falcon 9 explosion, and that it seeks to resume launches Jan. 8 — pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The space administration is set to launch a couple new programs and could rely increasingly on private partnerships.

SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk were eager to show off the Falcon Heavy in a new Instagram post, raising hopes that the company will redeem itself after an explosive setback in September.

SpaceX won't launch in 2016. Some wonder how much that will hit the company financially.

With Boeing also delaying its manned space launches to 2018, the space agency will be forced to continue its reliance on Russian rockets, and even that will end in 2019.

NASA cancelled the launch CYGNSS to space on board the Pegasus XL rocket after issues.

The British satellite communications company said on Nov. 3 it was considering other options after a Sept. 1 explosion caused SpaceX flights to be delayed.

The federal agency said Wednesday that Elon Musk's company must first finalize its investigation into Sept. 1's massive explosion.

The private spaceflight company, which originally wanted to send humans to Mars in 2023, has pushed back the deadline yet again — this time to 2031.

SpaceX has decided to delay all flight plans until January 2017 as the company completes an investigation into an explosion that happened in September.