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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has just signed a deal to deliver two robot payloads to the moon for a small Japanese company, ispace , ispace said this morning. According to ispace, it is using the technology developed by the HAKUTO team for its new effort, called HAKUTO-R. That effort expired in March.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Hawthorne, California-based space rocket developer SpaceX has its first, real, commercial competition, as of Monday, after competing rocket developer Blue Origin launched its first successful test into space.

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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. SpaceX said the Air Force will conduct competition for its launches due to the "emergence of multiple certified providers." SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, not far from LAX.

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MAY 30, 2012

SpaceShiptTwo is based on SpaceShipOne, the first rocket-powered, manned spaceship which was flown to space in 2004 as part of the Ansari X Prize competition. SpaceX is expecting its Dragon spacecraft to return to earth around 5:35 a.m.

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