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JULY 1, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is hoping to launch the very first, commercial missions for its Starship spacecraft--designed to deliver passengers to Mars--in 2021, according to the company , and is currently in talks with three companies on those missions.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of Hawthorne, California-based companies SpaceX and The Boring Company said on Thursday that he is donating $100M to a new prize for the best carbon capture technology. Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2021.

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MARCH 14, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has added another satellite customer, DigitalGlobe , to its queue of launch contracts, the two companies said Wednesday morning. The two said that the first block of satellites for DigitalGlobe's WorldView Legion satellites will be launched in two separate flights in 2021, on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

NASA announced late Tuesday that it has selected Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) , for a $112M mission to launch a water survey mission to space in April of 2021. READ MORE>>.

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