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Report: SpaceX Raising New Funding At Near $10 Billion Valuation

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A new report this morning says that Hawthorne-based spaceship and rocket developer Space Exploration Technologies is in the midst of raising a new round of investment, which values the company at around $10 billion. Amount of funding, and the investors involved, have not been disclosed. The report came from TechCrunch.

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SpaceX Gets Investment From Legendary Ventures

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Hawthorne, California-based rocket and spacecraft developer SpaceX has just closed a Series N funding round, according to investor Legendary Ventures, which invested in the round. billion in new funding, at a valuation of $46 billion. The investment firm's General Partner is Jayson Kim. READ MORE>>.

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Report: SpaceX Raising $500M For Satellite Internet Efforts

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is in the midst of raising another $500M in funding, according to the WSJ, in a funding round to help it bring its constellation of Internet satellites to space. The funding reportedly is coming form Baillie Gifford & Co., The funding reportedly is coming form Baillie Gifford & Co.,

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SpaceX Books Lunar Lander Launch Mission

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX has been booked to launch the first, privately funded lunar lander mission, as a secondary payload on an upcoming launch from Cape Canaveral. The lunar lander was developed by SpaceIL, an Israeli non-profit. The lunar lander was developed by SpaceIL, an Israeli non-profit.

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SpaceX Scores $886M From FCC For High Speed Rural Broadband

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Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , which is developing its own constellation of thousands of satellites to provide Internet service to earth, has been selected to receive $886M from the FCC to deploy high speed broadband to the rural United States. According to the FCC, SpaceX was among 180 companies to receive part of $9.2

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OSI Systems Acquires American Science and Engineering

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Hawthorne-base OSI Systems , which develops electronics systems for the homeland security, healthcare, and other markets, said this morning that it has acquired American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E), OSI Systems said it will fund the acquisition from an existing, $450M credit facility. OSI said it would pay $37.00

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SpaceX Selects Texas For Launch Facility

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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. The State of Texas said it will offer up $2.3M

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