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AECOM To Build Hyperloop Test Track For SpaceX

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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.

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SpaceX To Deliver Robots To The Moon

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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 has signed a contract with SpaceX for two flights to land two lunar orbiters on the moon. That effort expired in March.

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SpaceX Set To Get Chance At Military Satellite Launches

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket company headed by tech mogul Elon Musk, is set to get a chance to bid on launch contracts for the Department of Defense, according to Gen. William Shelton, commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command. military launches.

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ULA Takes Aim At SpaceX Track Record

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The United Launch Alliance , the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture which had, until recently, a lock on contracts for national security launches for the Air Force, is taking aim at Hawthorne-based SpaceX.

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SpaceX Gets Challenge From Blue Origin

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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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SpaceX, Air Force Settle Lawsuit

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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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Virgin Galactic Gets FAA Launch Permit

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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.