The purchase of a drone barge that it will use for remote-controlled landings of its new Neutron rocket ship. The development of a new satellite designed for mass manufacture and easy packing inside.

The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch.

The rocket's upper stage — known as Starship, or simply "Ship" — was supposed to deploy 10 dummy satellites into a suborbital trajectory and then splash down in the Indian Ocean about an hour ...