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SpaceX Prepping For Launch Later Today Of New Rocket Design

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is in the final phases of launch for a new rocket design, the Falcon 9 Block 5, targeted at 4:12 EDT today in Florida. SpaceX--which is hoping to launch the very first satellite for Bangladesh, the Bangabandhu-1, with the launch--and also prove out its new, highly re-usable design, which is aimed at making it even easier for SpaceX to re-use its rockets. SpaceX's new design is intended to be re-used without any extensive refurbishment, and only an inspection, and--with some replacements of components--launch into space hundreds of times.