in december 2010, spacex was making one falcon 9 (and dragon spacecraft) every three months. they wanted to double the rate to one every six weeks. by september 2013, spacex's manufacturing space had increased to nearly . the factory had set up to make 40 rocket cores per year. the factory was making one falcon 9 vehicle per month as of november 2013. the company wanted to increase that to 18 vehicles per year in mid-2014 and 24 per year by the end of 2014. they wanted to be making 40 rocket cores per year by the end of 2015.