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JUNE 5, 2018

East Coast accelerator brings program to Los Angeles; cryptocurrency company aims to reduce ICO fraud; Elon Musk’s tunnels approved in Hawthorne

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JUNE 10, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has bailed on a pending deal to lease space at the Port of Los Angeles, the second time it has done so in the last year. The withdrawal of SpaceX's lease comes after a massive scramble by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to approve a 10-year agreement with SpaceX in February.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Three executives of Tesla Motors , the high profile electric car firm setting up operations in Los Angeles, apparently have died in a plane crash in Palo Alto, as they were heading towards Hawthorne Municipal Airport in Los Angeles. Names and identities of the deceased have not yet been released by the FAA.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX hope to hire another 700 employees in Los Angeles, at a new site at the Port of Los Angeles, to work on its Mars rocket, according to officials in Los Angeles on Monday.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a payload of ten satellites into space for satellite constellation operator Iridium on Friday evening, from Vandenberg Air Force Base--in a launch which turned heads across the Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

It looks like Elon Musk , the tech mogul behind Hawthorne-based SpaceX , is settling further into Los Angeles, and has purchased a $17M mansion in Bel Air. Musk--who has been splitting his time between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley--is also head of electric car company Tesla Motors, and solar leasing firm SolarCity.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Tesla Motors is getting set to launch its newest model--the mass market, Model 3--at an event on March 31st in Los Angeles, in what is expected to be watershed moment for the electric car company. Tesla maintains a small office in Hawthorne, right next to SpaceX, the space rocket company which is also headed by Elon Musk.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Los Angeles-based all-you-can-fly subscription airline Surf Air made a major expansion this week, saying that it has begun flying out of the San Diego Area--or more specifically, the om McClellan-Palomar Airport (CRQ) in Carlsbad--earlier this week. Surf Air said it will also start flying from Carlsbad to Hawthorne (HHR) on January 12th.

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JUNE 10, 2014

Los Angeles, high technology mogul Elon Musk is no stranger to grand visions (electric cars? Musk, who is CEO of Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), and also runs electric car maker Tesla Motors , said at an event yesterday in London that he''s interested in building a flying car at Tesla, just for fun.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

According to NASA, the Dragon is now returning to a port near Los Angeles in preparation for being returned to NASA in the next 48 hours, to process research samples from the ISS. Hawthorne-based SpaceX is a venture funded startup, headed by tech mogul Elon Musk. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully touched down at 12:22 p.m.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Hawthorne-based Cereplast , a developer of bio-plastics, said today that it is moving all of its R&D and production lines to Indiana, as it looks to reduce its footprint in Southern California.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.

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JULY 26, 2017

For Elon Musk , the technology mogul behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors, you post a video of the car elevator you built in Hawthorne, for The Boring Company and it's efforts to whisk cars, people, and stuff around via a network of underground tunnels in Los Angeles.

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JUNE 23, 2009

Tesla announced its Model S in March at an event in Hawthorne, where Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also runs space firm SpaceX. Tags: tesla motors electric southern california angeles employment jobs factory automotive auto. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2018

The US Department of Defense announced late Wednesday evening that it has awarded Hawthorne-based SpaceX , a $290.594M contract, to launch GPS satellites for the United States Air Force (USAF) into space, as part of its GPS III satellite constellation. The contract announcement by the DoD also included a $354.8M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The first tunnel being built by Los Angeles-based Boring Company , a prototype tunnel meant to prove out its technology and feasibility of transporting people and traffic beneath city streets, is nearly complete, according to Boring Company and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. The tunnel runs approximately 2 miles under city streets.

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MAY 4, 2020

Elon Musk , the founder of Hawthorne-based SpaceX , is apparently selling all of his real estate--including two Los Angeles homes , saying that he is selling all his physical possessions. Musk is selling one of his homes in LA for $30M, and the other for $9.5M.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The first, high tech test tunnel built by LA's The Boring Company , bored between the SpaceX parking lot and a home in Hawthorne, California, is almost complete, and will open to the public on December 10th, according to Boring Company and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the Los Angeles area spacecraft and rocket developer, has delayed today's launch of BulgariaSat-1 to replace a fairing valve, saying that its next launch opportunities for the spacecraft are 6/23 and 6/24. That's the same weekend as SpaceX is scheduled to launch another payload for Iridium, on 6/25.

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JUNE 30, 2017

ET, under control of flight controllers at SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters. SpaceX typically returns those capsules to its headquarters via the Port of Los Angeles, in Long Beach. NASA said the capsule will have more than 4,1000 of return cargo. Image: view of the Dragon in space, courtesy NASA.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is reportedly planning to set up a new factory to build its next generation, Starship rockets at the Port of Los Angeles, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. The rocket factory is expected to be up and running in as little as 90 days, according to the report.

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JUNE 9, 2017

According to NASA, Jessica Watkins, 29, has a doctorate in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has worked at NASA's Ames Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is now a fellow at the California Institute of Technology working on the Curiosity rover.

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JULY 8, 2019

SpaceX, which is based in the Los Angeles area, in Hawthorne, has said that it hopes to launch commercial missions on the Starship in 2021. A fire broke out this morning at a SpaceX facility in Florida, where SpaceX is working on its "Starship", reportedly causing around $650,000 in damage. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

The other companies are the similar named Virgin Hyperloop One in downtown Los Angeles, and SpaceX, in Hawthorne.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Hawthorne-based Boring Company , the company created by Elon Musk to create a network of underground tunnels to bypass traffic in Los Angeles, has abandoned plans to dig a tunnel on LA's Westwide. The Boring Company said it still plans to dig its tunnel project under Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium, which is known as the "Dugout Loop".

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX says that it is still set for another attempt to launch the PAZ satellite mission into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on Wednesday, 6:17 a.m. SpaceX said that the weather is "90% favorable" for tomorrow's launch window. Image: the Falcon 9 and PAZ on the launchpad at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based subscription airline Surf Air is extending its service into Orange County, with a new partnership with helicopter charter firm BLADE , the company said on Wednesday. The connecting flights will cost $199 per shuttle flight, and are not included as part of Surf Air's existing membership. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

A big Los Angeles area construction and engineering firm, AECOM , said Tuesday that it has been selected to build the first, Hyperloop test track, for a competition being run by Hawthorne-based SpaceX. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Elon Musk , the CEO of Hawthorne-based rocket launch company SpaceX , has officially moved out of California and to Texas, he said on Tuesday. Musk has spent much of his time in Los Angeles, since founding SpaceX, in addition to Silicon Valley.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Musk also runs Hawthorne-based SpaceX, in the Los Angeles area. Billionaire Elon Musk says that one of his tech companies--Tesla, will be moving its headquarters out of California, and to Austin, Texas, making good Musk's threat to pull out of Silicon Valley. It's unclear if Musk is planning a similar move for SpaceX.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA - In November, we wrote what was one of our most popular features (and most controversial), a list of what companies in Los Angeles were the top tech companies to work for. why (except widespread interest all year in the achievements of Hawthorne-based SpaceX, and. We have no idea.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched yet another payload into space on Monday morning, carrying 64 satellites into space on the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission. Among the 64 satellites on the flight is one of the more unusual payloads for SpaceX: an art project for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

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JANUARY 11, 2021

SpaceX is based in the Los Angeles area, in Hawthorne. The Dragon cargo craft is actually one of two, SpaceX Dragon spacecraft currently at the International Space Station--there's also a Crew Dragon attached to the ISS at the moment. The CRS-21 Cargo Dragon is expected to splash down off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Musk's company--which has been digging tunnels beneath SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne--says the hat costs $20, including shipping and tax.

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MAY 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based Two Bit Circus Foundation , the nonprofit education arm of LA's Two Bit Circus , is running two of its STEAM Carnival events at Los Angeles area schools.

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JULY 2, 2019

The Boring Company , the Los Angeles company working on advanced transportation systems, which is led by technology mogul Elon Musk, says it is ramping up efforts in Las Vegas, and is actively hiring for a significiant number of positions in Las Vegas, as well as Hawthorne.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , the Los Angeles area space rocket developer led by billionaire Elon Musk, is getting set for its return to space, and has loaded up ten IridiumNEXT satellites into a Falcon 9 in preparation for a launch in January.

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