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JANUARY 29, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket and spacecraft developer led by technology mogul Elon Musk, is aiming at its first launch of its new Falcon Heavy rocket for February 6th. SpaceX conducted a static firing test on the new rocket design last week. Image: The Falcon Heavy on its launch pad in Florida.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Hawthorne-based commercial rocket development firm SpaceX --which is led by tech mogul Elon Musk--is setting up a commercial spaceport in Texas, after a number of incentives offered by the state to attract the firm. SpaceX also has plans to launch rockets in California, at Vandenberg Air Force Base. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2018

Hawthorne, California-based rocket launch provider SpaceX may be looking to deliver its own spacecraft to Mars, however, in the meantime, it's now set to deliver a spacecraft to the Moon for a nonprofit group in Israel. SpaceIL has develops a large, 4-legged unmanned spacecraft for landing on the Moon. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Hawthorne-based SpaceX said Monday that it has been given a November 30, 2011 launch date for a trip to the International Space Station. SpaceX said its Dragon will berth with the ISS nine days after launch READ MORE>>.

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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.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm headed by Elon Musk, is set for its first test launch attempt of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle this morning, at 8am Pacific. The launch--out of Cape Canaveral--is being webcast on SpaceX's website. Tags: spacex falcon commercial rocket launch spacecraft space. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2012

Hawthorne-based SpaceX and a firm working on developing its own, orbiting space station designs said Thursday they that have partnered to carry passengers to private space stations on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The firms did not give any timelines on when such space stations and launches might occur. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the firm which is developing commercial space launch rockets, said Friday that it has successfully demonstrated a component on the NASA STS-127 shuttle mission. SpaceX's contract with NASA calls for the firm to carry cargo to the ISS in 12 flights between 2010 and 2015. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based First Resonance, a startup developing what it calls a "factory operating system" designed for hardware companies for use in their manufacturing operations, says it has raised a new round of funding. The company said the new funding will go to expand its team and support continued development of its platform.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Los Angeles-based Relativity , a space launch startup which is developing automation technology designed to automate construction of rockets, said on Thursday that it has signed a deal for a launch site at Cape Canaveral. Relativity is venture backed by Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, Phillip Spector, and Mark Cuban.

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JULY 15, 2020

Playa Vista-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , one of the local developers of high tech, futuristic "hyperloop" transportation systems, says it has helpeds to publish the industry's first set of safety guidelines. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Manhattan Beach-based Rocket Lab , which develops rockets for launching small satellites into space, has made another step to making its rockets reusable, saying that it has completed its first prototype of a parachute which will help in its recovery of its rockets. Rocket Lab is focusing its launch efforts on small satellites.

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MAY 17, 2017

Rocket Lab , a Huntington Beach-based startup developing launch rockets, is hoping to join SpaceX as the second, venture-backed rocket developer in Southern California to reach space with a launch on May 22nd. Rocket Lab, which is led by Peter Beck, started developing its rockets in 2006.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

Noone had gone on to take a job at SpaceX and Ellis at Blue Origin, but the two remained in touch and had an idea for building rockets quickly and cheaply — with the vision that they wanted to eventually build these rockets on Mars. “It’s always been the case that we’re developing our own metal 3D printing technology.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Musks''s Hyperloop design revolves around an elevated tube and solar-powered pods which are based on a round, induction motor similar to the one in Tesla''s Motel S, rolled flat, which will power the pods through a high speed tune for their 350 mile journey.

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JUNE 15, 2018

Playa Vista-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , the transportation systems developer led by Dirk Ahlborn, said on Thursday that it has inked a deal with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, to plan a commercial Hyperloop system in that country. Financial impact of that deal was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Rocket Lab develops small, space launch vehicles, designed specifically for putting small satellites into space. The company is led by CEO Peter Beck, and unlike SpaceX, is targeting more the market for small, low-earth-orbit (LEO) vehicles. The firm says it is now worth more than $1 billion after the latest funding.

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JUNE 2, 2017

Stratolaunch says its goal is to develop a platform to make access to low Earth orbit (LEO) more convenient, more reliable, and routine. Paul Allen founded Stratolaunch in 2011. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. Relativity has also completed tests of its avionics architecture and hardware and conducted an analysis of the vehicle’s design and coupled loads.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. Vibrant Planet Vibrant Planet is a data-driven science and cloud-based solution designed to support restoration efforts.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

Planetary Resources--which has the backing of such folks as space traveler Charles Simonyi (Microsoft), Larry Page (Google), director James Cameron, and others--said that it several of its staff were the lead engineers for designing, building and testing Curiosity at JPL. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. The company, along with its partners at PreistmanGoode also released the design for its passenger Hyperloop capsule at the London Design Festival.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Stratolaunch said it will create the "largest aircraft ever flown" based on a design developed by Scaled Composites, the firm created by Burt Rutan, which was behind SpaceShipOne, the first commercially developed spacecraft to reach space.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The rover was designed, developed, and assembled at JPL, which is a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). NASA's Curiosity Rover , the car-sized, robotic explorer run out of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , has landed successfully on Mars, touching down on the Red Planet at 10:32 p.m. Sunday evening.

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TechCrunch LA

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. Alcohol brands are turning their attention to making hand sanitizer to distribute in communities experiencing shortages.

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JUNE 29, 2016

In traditional investor parlance, these markets take years to develop and more money and risk than anyone should consider, so look first for a painful problem in a known market. Overtly design the ecosystem as well as product. But now I believe that times have changed. They make a long-term strategy come alive for customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

Elon Musk seems to be highest on this list these days, with his record-setting order rate on the new Tesla Model 3 all-electric car, and well as groundbreaking progress on SpaceX and SolarCity. Steve Job’s focus on incredible design has set new standards for all. Pushes beyond the limits of known function and design.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. But, most successful ecosystems have good diversity.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. We also wanted access to development resources, and we have our product team here, the engineers and designers, all based in Santa Monica. The most obvious, is to drive sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

LavaLab is USC’s first product design incubator program run for students by students. moment when you realize you’ve been dealing with that all along and you just didn’t think a solution could be designed around it. In the past, we’ve had Jason Wei from Taggler and Elon Musk from SpaceX and Tesla. It’s a typical “Aha!”

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand.

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