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JUNE 24, 2020

Relativity Space has a new customer for its 3D-printed rockets: Established satellite maker and operator Iridium, which has picked the company for launches in 2023. “Not only do we have a second launch site, but we have an anchor customer. . “Not only do we have a second launch site, but we have an anchor customer.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm headed by Elon Musk and backed by the Founders Fund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, said today that it has inked a deal with Astrium to provide dedicated launch serviecs to the European institutional small satellite market. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is hoping to launch the very first, commercial missions for its Starship spacecraft--designed to deliver passengers to Mars--in 2021, according to the company , and is currently in talks with three companies on those missions. All three of those customers would use the new platform to send satellites into orbit.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Adding to the mystery surrounding its planned launch of a super-secret payload, called "Zuma", into orbit, Los Angeles-based SpaceX says it has "decided to stand down" from the launch of the mysterious, top secret payload. SpaceX said it will confirm a new launch date later. government customer. government customer.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has just delayed its upcoming satellite launch mission--of the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express --due to the incoming weather system into California. According to SpaceX, the launch is being delayed to extreme high-altitude winds that violate its Range requirements.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has unveiled the name of the person who has booked an around the Moon trip on its BFR rocket on Monday evening, saying that it's Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa. SpaceX did not say how much Yusaka Maezawa will pay for the trip. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

NASA said on Wednesday that it plans to use a "flight-proven" booster rocket from Hawthorne-based SpaceX on its next Commercial Resupply Mission (CRS-13), the first time the agency will use a returned SpaceX booster in a mission. NASA is notoriously conservative in its qualifications for spaceflights.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has opened up signups for its Starlink satellite Internet, allowing interested customers to sign up for ordering the service on its website. SpaceX requests users' email and service address, and says that orders are "first come, first serve".

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is hoping that it will be able to launch its Spaceflight SSO-A mission on Sunday, five days after it was force to scrub its original Wednesday launch date for the small satellite launch mission. The mission will put 64 small satellites, collected together by space ride arranger Spaceflight, for over 35 customers.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered its largest, geosynchronous satellite payload, the Hispasat 30W-6, to orbit last night, in a late evening launch from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with the Hispasat 30W-6 at 12:33 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40). READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has delayed the first launch of its giant, Falcon Heavy rocket to sometime early next year, the company disclosed this week. SpaceX had hoped to launch the big rocket this year. The Falcon Heavy would be the biggest rocket in existence, using 27 of the Merlin D engines--the same engines used in the SpaceX Falcon.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX says it has shifted its launch date for its mysterious "Zuma" government payload to January 7th, as extreme weather slowed preparations for launch in Florida. government customer. SpaceX has only said that the primary contractor on the payload is Northrop Grumman. — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 5, 2018.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX said on Monday that it will begin offering up regularly scheduled, shared "rideshare" launches, aimed at use by small satellite operators. According to SpaceX, those launches will cost as low as $2.25M per mission, including up to 150 kg of payload mass. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2018

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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MARCH 4, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the space launch vehicle startup funded by PayPal founder Elon Musk, said Wednesday afternoon that it has hired on a new Vice President of Business Development. According to SpaceX, it has appointed Rob Peckham, former President and General Manager of Sea Launch, to the position. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2017

Hawthorne-based SPaceX has signed up yet another customer for its rocket launch business, Cayman Islands-based Global-IP Cayman. Global-IP Cayman, which is working on providing satellite Internet to Sub-Saharan Africa, said it has signed a launch services deal with SpaceX for its first satellite.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning yet another launch of a Falcon 9 rocket today, this time from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to SpaceX, the launch openings for the mysterious "Zuma payload" openst at 8:00 pm. EST today, with backup windows opening at the same time on Friday and Saturday. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2018

EST, according to the SpaceX website, which will be broadcasting a live feed of the launch. According to SpaceX, the next backup launch window for the Zuma payload will open at 8:00 p.m. SpaceX, as well as the un-named, U.S. SpaceX, as well as the un-named, U.S. EST on Monday, January 8. Livestream embedded below.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial spaceflight operation run by Elon Musk, reported today that it has named Marv Vander Weg to Vice President of its EELV Customer Office, which appears to be a new office targeted at the U.S. Tags: spacex eelv united launch alliance defense rocket space elon musk. Air Force and the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to retry a launch originally planned for Sunday afternoon today, after a failure of an Air Force radar system forced the company to scrub its original launch time. SpaceX said the earliest next opportunity for its launch of the DSCOVR space weather satellite is today, at 6:07pm ET. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 28, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX saw yet another successful launch on Monday evening, carrying the TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat satellite into geo transfer orbit at 7:03pm ET. SpaceX delivered the payload into space for customer Thales Alenia Space, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2012

Virgin Galactic said that Mojave-based Scaled Composites was granted the permit from the FAA to launch its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceshiptTwo, from its custom WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft. The firm said that the permit is a "major step" towards bringing its customers to space. Thursday morning.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has shown off new photos and videos of its new, heavy lift rocket, the Falcon Heavy, sitting on a launch pad in Florida. SpaceX has not yet said when it plans to launch the Falcon Heavy, only indicating that the launch is likely to happen sometime this month. video of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy embedded below).

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX --despite a continuing string of successful launches--is cutting 10 percent of its 6,000 employees, according to a report published on Friday. The report--from the LA Times--confirmed the layoff with the company, which said that Space "must become a leaner company" to continue to deliver for its customers.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Southern California entrepreneur Elon Musk has huge success this year, in (literally) getting commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX --based in Hawthorne--off the ground and into space, with a hugely successful set of flights to the International Space Station (ISS). READ MORE>>.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

It appears the puff of marijuana inhaled by Elon Musk last night on a podcast has drawn in Los Angeles-based SpaceX and one of its big customers--the U.S. It's unclear how Musk's personal drug use will impact SpaceX, however, Musk serves as CEO of SpaceX. Air Force--according to reports on Friday.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has been selected by the U.S. According to the contract award, SpaceX will receive $130,000 to deliver the Air Force Space Command-52 satellite, including launch vehicle production and mission, as well as integration, launch operations and spaceflight worthiness activities. Department of Defense.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

21 in Los Angeles near the serial entrepreneur’s other company SpaceX. Cybertruck unveil on Nov 21 in LA near SpaceX rocket factory. Musk mentioned on Twitter the desire to produce a pickup truck way back in April 2017, before the first Model 3 sedans had been handed over to customers and the CEO had entered production hell.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. We have no idea. its launch to the International Space Station).

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JUNE 28, 2017

Mobile game hardware startup Wonder raises $14 million, SpaceX to launch final Falcon 9 upgrade this year and Snapchat users can create custom filters in the app.

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MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. The World Health Organization approved their sanitizers, which the company will produce in its warehouse in San Francisco.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Motive provides conversational text messaging used by e-commerce brands to simulate human interaction with customers, with the aim of preventing cart abandonment, promote new sales and product releases, and more. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Manufacturing can be done within 60 days, according to the company’s claims, and its vehicles have a payload capacity of up to 1250 kilograms ( SpaceX’s largest rockets will have roughly 100 times that payload capacity). Relativity Space signs the satellite transportation company Momentus as a new customer.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Between what he's doing between Tesla and SpaceX is pretty remarkable. At a more simple level, what Steve Jobs and the iPad has done, has totally changed how we as a business communicate with our customers. Elon is out there and just leading the pack. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

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MARCH 24, 2020

The launch is a rideshare mission that includes satellites from a range of customers, including NASA, as well as the US. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and a communications and tech demonstration satellite built by the University of New South Wales, Canberra Space and the Australian government.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

The company said it has booked a launch slot on a SpaceX Falcon 9 around Q4 of 2023. Impulse Space says it is working on technology to help with in-space transportation to custom orbits, in-space payload hosting and precision re-entry trajectory injection in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

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