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SpaceX: Over $3 Billion In Revenues On Manifest

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm run by technology mogul Elon Musk, disclosed today in an email to supporters that the firm has racked up over $3 billion in revenues in its launch manifest, and has been profitable since 2007. SpaceX is selling prices of a standard flight of the Falcon 9 at $54M.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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Max Q: How to build a Starship

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Busy week for SpaceX – across funding, space tourism, and next-gen spacecraft. SpaceX plans to build Starships at a furious clip. SpaceX is serious about iteration – its strategy of building (and failing – and learning from its failures) fast is in full effect for its Starship development program.

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SpaceX Gets $75M From NASA

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Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the commercial rocket firm run by tech mogul Elon Musk, has scored $75M from NASA as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort, NASA said Monday. NASA's CCDev2 effort is aimed at accelerating the availability of U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Starship Technologies picks up €50M from the EU’s investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots

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Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. Prices for the service can vary by city and location, but as an example a service that it provides to grocery chain Coop in Milton Keynes is made for a flat fee of 99 pence.

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Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

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Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. In 2018 alone, venture investments in space topped $2 billion for the first time, and 187 investors wrote checks to 90 startups, according to Bryce Space and Technology. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. .

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth

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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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