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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Los Angeles-based startup airline Surf Air , which has made a splash with frequent travelers between Southern California and Silicon Valley, is extending its footprint, saying Wednesday that it intends to launch service between Southern California and Las Vegas, starting next month. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2018

The US Department of Defense announced late Wednesday evening that it has awarded Hawthorne-based SpaceX , a $290.594M contract, to launch GPS satellites for the United States Air Force (USAF) into space, as part of its GPS III satellite constellation. The contract announcement by the DoD also included a $354.8M READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is now accepting online reservations for flights on one of its dedicated, satellite ride sharing missions--for a cost as low as $1M. According to SpaceX, it is expanding its launch services "to directly address the needs of small satellite operators" through the online booking tool.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

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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APRIL 29, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to launch its massive constellation of 1,500 satellites into space, for its planned "Starlink" Internet service.

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MAY 24, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered 60, Starlink communications satellites into orbit last night, the first of what is planned to be thousands of low earth orbit satellites designed to provide Internet communications anywhere in the world. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to launch another resupply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) today--its eighteenth--in a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, later this evening. According to SpaceX, its eighteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-18) is targeted for launch at 6:24 p.m.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully put the Koreasat-5A into space on Monday, successfully launching another satellite into space, and again successfully landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic. SpaceX launched the Koreasat-5A from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:34 p.m. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2019

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has scored a $50.3M According to NASA, the award covers both launch services and other mission-related costs for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). contract to launch a NASA probe to study black holes and neutron stars.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has scored $297M more in a launch contract from the U.S. According to the Air Force Space and Missle Systems Center, SpaceX won one of two Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch services contracts, worth a total of $297M. Air Force , the launch three new missions into space.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two, Southern California companies--Hawthorne-based SpaceX and Irvine-based Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems , have both been selected as part of a NASA program aimed at landing payloads to the Moon.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX put yet another 60 satellites for its Starlink system into space on Sunday, using a Falcon 9 first stage which was previously used to launch the Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. SpaceX's launch occurred at 8:25 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based subscription airline Surf Air is extending its service into Orange County, with a new partnership with helicopter charter firm BLADE , the company said on Wednesday. The connecting flights will cost $199 per shuttle flight, and are not included as part of Surf Air's existing membership. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2018

The FCC has just approved a plan by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX to launch a constellation of 4,425 satellites, to provide widespread Internet access across the earth. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to launch yet another satellite into space today, this time, a commercial payload for KT Sat, South Korea's satellite service provider. SpaceX said it plans to launch Koreasat-5A from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 3:34 p.m. SpaceX is again broadcasting the launch on its website.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered another payload into space over the Christmas weekend, delivering the GPS III SV01 Mission into space on Sunday, December 23rd at 5:51 a.m. for the U.S. The launch was from Cape Canaveral, Florida. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has been selected by NASA for a new launch contract, to launch NASA's Sentinel-6A mission into space, NASA said on Thursday. NASA said total cost for it to launch the new mission will be approximately $97M, including launch services and other mission related costs. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 5, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX delivered another payload into space on Wednesday, sending the Intelsat 35e into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), on its third try. The satellite is Intelsat's fourth, Epic-generation satellite, used for video and broadband, wireless backhaul, enterprise, and mobility services in the C- and Ku-band.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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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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JUNE 29, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched its fifteenth mission to the International Space Station this morning, sending the CRS-15 (Commercial Resupply Services) mission into space at 5:42 a.m.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX successfully launched another payload to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, launching the tenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-10) mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Hawthorne-based SpaceX says it is now planning to launch its next mission to the International Space Station, CRS-13, on Wednesday morning. According to SpaceX, it is targeting launch of the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida for 8:46 a.m.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is targeting its next rocket launch for sometime next week, from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX has targeted the launch of the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite for a launch window starting at 11:33pm EDT on the 23rd, according to multiple sources. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered the Merah Putih, an Indonesian communications satellite, into orbit at 1:18 a.m. The Merah Putih is being used by PT Telekom Indonesia to provide services to Indonesia, as well as other parts of South and Southeast Asia. EDT on Tuesday. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket launch firm led by Elon Musk, is planning a torrid launch pace--hoping to send up rockets into space every two or three weeks-- according to Reuters. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX successfully delivered yet another payload into space on Saturday, launching a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX also again successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9, at Cape Canaveral. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is set to put its next Falcon 9 into space on Thursday, with a launch of the Es'hail-2 rocket from its operations in Florida, according to the company. The communications satellite--owned by the country of Qatar--will launch from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has plans to deploy thousands, as does Amazon.com, in order to blanket the globe with Internet service. The IAU said that--until this year--the number of communications satellites in space was below 200, but there are now plans to deploy potentially "tens of thousands" of them. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

According to sales emails, the company is planning on revisiting pricing for both new and existing members of the service. Surf Air provides all-you-can-fly service between Burbank, Hawthorne, the Bay Area, Sacramento, Carlsbad, Las Vegas, and other destinations in California. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Hawthorne-based SpaceX said Thursday that it has signed a contract to provide launch services for a German radar reconnaissance satellite system, to be launched into orbit in 2018 and 2019.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX scrubbed its resupply mission to the International Space Station on Thursday, due to weather, and will retry on Saturday, June 3rd. SpaceX had been attempting to launch the Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-11) for NASA at 5:55 p.m. The next launch time is Saturday, June 3 at 5:07 p.m.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has launched yet another payload into space--only two days after a successful launch of a satellite payload at Vandenberg.

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JULY 24, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is targeting its next launch for here in Southern California tomorrow, July 25th, at the very, very early morning hours. The Iridium-7 is the seventh of a total of 75 satellites that SpaceX has been contracted to launch by Iridium, which provides satellite communications services acros the world.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has successfully docked its SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday morning at 8:12 a.m. The Dragon, which is on the tenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-10) for NASA, is delivering around 5,000 pounds of supplies to the space station.

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JULY 18, 2016

NASA sent almost 5,000 pounds of cargo into space on the SpaceX Falcon 9 -- built by SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, in Los Angeles -- in this latest mission, which is its ninth Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for the agency. The two launched the latest SpaceX mission from Cape Canaveral early this morning, at 12:45 a.m.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has sent another commercial communications satellite to space, and successfully landed another Falcon 9 first stage on a drone ship on Sunday, adding to the company's growing list of successful missions to space. a satellite television service in Japan. READ MORE>>.

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