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SpaceX is the private space company launched with the aim of taking humans to Mars .

But the company's recent attempts to launch its reusable Falcon 9 rockets have met with a fiery end .

In June, a few minutes after blast off, a strut failure separated a helium tank which caused a pressure build-up leading to an explosive end to the rocket.

Now it's ready to try again with CEO Elon Musk announcing the company plans to launch another Falcon 9 sometime next week.

SpaceX has modified the rocket to make sure that the same problem doesn't happen again.

The company has also added extra thrust and a few other modifications. The purpose of the flight is to ship 11 satellites into space.

(Image: REUTERS/Mike Brown)

But the real trick will be to successfully land the rocket after the mission is completed so that it can be reused a second time.