Hawthorne-based company, SpaceX has announced that its next launch will see a delay longer than expected following the June 28 accident in which its unmanned ship carrying cargo to the International Space Station got destroyed.

On Monday, at a scientific forum in Pasadena, president of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell said that the company is still two months away from the next flight. She said, “We're taking more time than we originally envisioned to get back to flight. But I don't think any of our customers wants us to race to the cliff and fail again”.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was carrying cargo worth $110 million for NASA at the time when it got destroyed two minutes following liftoff, high above Florida's coast.

In July, Elon Musk, SpaceX founder said the preliminary investigation of the company had pointed to the failure of a two-foot long strut purchased from a supplier. The strut was carrying down one of the number of helium bottles in the rocket's second stage.

Musk mentioned that now onwards SpaceX would test each strut, without just depending on the subcontractor's certification of their strength. He said due to the failure the company’s launch schedule would see a delay by ‘only a few months’.

NASA has given permission to SpaceX for leading the investigation into the accident. It was lately recently questioned by a number of Congress members.

But in a letter the previous week, NASA administrator Charles Bolden disclosed that the space agency had taken the decision to conduct its own ‘independent review’ of the cause of the accident.