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Elon Musk Shows Off Boring Company Car Elevator

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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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SpaceX Plans To Launch Internet Satellite Network In 2019

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to launch its own network of satellites to provide Internet access, starting in 2019, the company said on Wednesday. SpaceX said its network will provide high-speed Internet to rural areas using mesh networking between its satellites. READ MORE>>.

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Elon Musk's Boring Company Abandons Plans for West LA Tunnel

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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 company had hoped to build a tunnel below the 405 freeway and Sepulveda Boulevard.

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Yes, You Can Now Buy A Hat From Elon Musk's Boring Company

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In the first product you can actually buy from Elon Musk's new tunnel-digging startup, The Boring Company , the company is now selling a hat with the company's name/logo on it. 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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SpaceX Aims At Starlink Beta Launch This Summer

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX has told users who have expressed interest in becoming a beta tester for the company's Starlink satellite Internet service that it hopes to launch a beta of its service sometime this summer. READ MORE>>.

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SpaceX Wins Missile Tracking Contract

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Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has received a new, $149M contract to help develop new, missile tracking satellites for the U.S. The Defense Department also awarded a separate, $193M contract to another company, L3Harris, worth more than $193M, for parallel efforts. The award was through the Pentagon's Space Development Agency.

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SpaceX Selected By DigitalGlobe For Satellite Constellation

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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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