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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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DECEMBER 8, 2020

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that he has moved to Texas, confirming months of speculation that the billionaire would leave California, a state of which he has become increasingly critical. His other privately held company, SpaceX, is planning a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Elon Musk , the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors , says the goal of all of the spacecraft development at SpaceX is to send one million people to Mars by 2050. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, California, in the Los Angeles area, and Musk spends most of his time in LA. 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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JANUARY 10, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has rescheduled its next launch from the West Coast, its Iridium-8 satellite launch, for tomorrow, January 11th, and 7:31 a.m. SpaceX has already successfully launched a number of the Iridium satellites into orbit from Vandenberg.

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JUNE 30, 2017

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft currently docked at the International Space Station is scheduled to return to earth on Sunday, according to NASA. NASA said it will be broadcasting coverage of the departure of the SpaceX dragon starting at 7:15 a.m. ET, under control of flight controllers at SpaceX's Hawthorne headquarters.

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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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JANUARY 13, 2020

In an unusual effort to find a girlfriend, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has launched a complicated effort to attract a partner to ride around the world in a SpaceX rocket with him. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, in the greater Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2017

In an unusual addition to the list of recruits to NASA's astronaut program, NASA said this week that a SpaceX engineer, and a Caltech researcher, are both among the list of twelve new candidates at a chance for future space exploration with the agency.

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OCTOBER 13, 2014

Tesla Motors , the electric car company led by Elon Musk, rolled out its latest automobile in Los Angeles last week, showing off a new version of the Model S that includes dual motors, and new "autopilot" functionality which can help drivers change lanes, keep within the speed limit, and avoid collisions. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , fresh off a successful satellite deployment mission on Friday morning, is launching another mission this morning from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX said it is targeting a launch at 4:30 p.m. SpaceX said this mission's Falcon 9, as well as Dragon capsule, were both previously flown. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Musk also runs Hawthorne-based SpaceX, in the Los Angeles area. Musk has been spending much of his time in Texas living in a tiny prefab house owned by SpaceX in Boca Chica. It's unclear if Musk is planning a similar move for SpaceX.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , which successfully launched its latest mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday morning at 6:17 a.m., also attempted a new experiment during the launch: an attempt to capture the fairing of the rocket as it descended back from space. Musk said that the fairing missed, but landed nearby.

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JULY 18, 2016

NASA says that the latest SpaceX Falcon mission to the International Space Station is planning to dock on Wednesday. The two launched the latest SpaceX mission from Cape Canaveral early this morning, at 12:45 a.m. SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 booster stage at Cape Canaveral as part of that launch. READ MORE>>.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

The launch failure early this morning in Kazakhstan of a Russian Soyuz mission to the International Space Station may impact the commercial mission of Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX and Boeing, if NASA is forced to return crews to earth and leave the ISS without a crew. SpaceX is led by Los Angeles technology mogul Elon Musk.

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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. The size of the contract was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2016

NASA says that the latest SpaceX Falcon mission to the International Space Station is planning to dock at 5:22PM PST (8:22PM EST), in what will be a live broadcast on NASA TV. The two launched the latest SpaceX mission from Cape Canaveral early this morning, at 12:45 a.m. Image: SpaceX photo of the successful Falcon 9 landing.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Hawthorne, California-based space rocket developer SpaceX said this week that it is now expecting to return to flight in early January, with the launch of the Iridium-1 satellite. The launch, when it does occur, should be visible from Santa Barbara, Ventura, and parts of Los Angeles county. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , the Los Angeles area rocket launch company, looks to be targeting its next launch for February 24th, according to client SES. The new satellite is being built locally in El Segundo at Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems , which is just down the road from 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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JANUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based space rocket developer SpaceX said Friday that the company has reached an agreement with the U.S. Air Force, to drop its lawsuit against the USAF--giving SpaceX the opportunity to bid for national security space launches. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, not far from LAX. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Los Angeles-based SpaceX , the space rocket firm run by Elon Musk, successfully launched its latest mission--a delivery of an Air Force satellite into deep space--on Wednesday evening. The launch came on the third try for SpaceX, which had encountered problems with an Air Force radar on Sunday, and high winds on Tuesday.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , the Los Angeles area commercial rocket and spacecraft developer led by Elon Musk, announced Tuesday afternoon that it has raised a billion dollars in a financing round. SpaceX said the deal gives Google and Fidelity just under 10 percent ownership of the company. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully touched down at 12:22 p.m. 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.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , the Los Angeles area rocket and spacecraft company, has scored two new launch agreements, this time with Luxembourg-based SES. SES said this morning that it has signed a deal for SpaceX to launch two satellites--SES-14 and SES-16/GovSat--‌into orbit in 2017.

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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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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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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. READ MORE>>.

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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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JULY 15, 2013

Tech mogul Elon Musk , who has proved that you can, indeed, build your own rocketship to space with his success with Hawthorne-based SpaceX , said today that he plans to unveil a brand new transportation system called Hyperloop. elon musk angeles sanfrancisco' Image courtesy Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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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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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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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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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 10, 2016

HTT, like similarly named Los Angeles startup Hyperloop Technologies, is also working on developing similar technology, as is a team from SpaceX, which is building a Hyperloop test track in Hawthorne , although SpaceX says it is not developing a commercial Hyperloop itself. READ MORE>>.

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