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Swoop Platform Targets Small Transportation Operators

L.A. Business Journal

Hawthorne-based Swoop Inc. wants to bring digital order and ease of use to the group transportation industry, a fragmented market populated with small operators who keep their books manually.

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Swoop Platform Targets Small Transportation Operators

L.A. Business Journal

Hawthorne-based Swoop Inc. wants to bring digital order and ease of use to the group transportation industry, a fragmented market populated with small operators who keep their books manually.

Platform 130
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SpaceX Plans First Commercial Flights Of Starship In 2021

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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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SpaceX Wins Missile Tracking Contract

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Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has received a new, $149M contract to help develop new, missile tracking satellites for the U.S. SpaceX is reportedly looking to use the same base platform as it has been for Starlink for the satellite tracking. The award was through the Pentagon's Space Development Agency.

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Virgin Orbit Plans Demonstration Mission This Weekend

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The launch--which will be made from the Mojave Air and Space Port is intended to put the LauncherOne rocket into space, launched from Virgin Orbit's modified 747 launch platform. Virgin Orbit said that it has a backup window also on Monday, May 25th, between 10AM and 2PM, in case of any weather or other issues that crop up on Sunday.

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SpaceX Authorized To Launch Massive, 7,518 Satellite Constellation

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Hawthorne-based space launch provider SpaceX , led by technology mogul Elon Musk, has just been given permission to launch a massive, 7,518 satellites into space, designed to provide saturated broadband communications across the globe. READ MORE>>.

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Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Names New Class

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The new companies include AMPAworks (inventory management); ClinicianNexus (Airbnb for clinical rotations); Feedtrail (healthcare surveys); FocusMotion Health Hawthorne Effect (virtual platform for tracking clinical trial data); Health Note (physician-patient interaction documentation); Lantum (shift scheduling for doctors and nurses); Notisphere (product (..)

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