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FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX said yesterday that it successfully "soft" landed its first booster stage for its Falcon rocket in the ocean, landing vertically and within 10 meters of its target. The landing is part of SpaceX''s reusable rocket attempts. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has just released a video via Vine of its failed landing attempt of the first launch stage of its rocket booster in Florida. SpaceX had been attempting to land the booster on a floating platform, as part of its efforts to develop a reusable rocket booster. spacex crash space nasa launch landing rocket'

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to retry a launch originally planned for Sunday afternoon today, after a failure of an Air Force radar system forced the company to scrub its original launch time. SpaceX said the earliest next opportunity for its launch of the DSCOVR space weather satellite is today, at 6:07pm ET. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket and spacecraft developer led by Elon Musk, is planning to attempt its next rocket landing test on solid ground, at Cape Canaveral, according to NASA. SpaceX has made several, failed landing attempts of its booster on its ocean platform on prior missions. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is hoping the fourth time is the charm, with plans to attempt yet another launch of its SES-9 mission on Friday afternoon. EST. NASA and SPACEX are webcasting the launch. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX saw another successful launch of a mission ot the International Space Station on Saturday, taking off at 4:47 a.m. SpaceX had originally planned to launch the mission on January 6th, but scrubbed that launch due to an unspecified technical issue. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX scrubbed its first launch attempt in its latest mission to the International Space Station on Monday due to weather, saying that the next launch opportunity for the Dragon is today at 1:10 p.m. spacex mission aerospace space flight rocket dragon' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has delivered another payload into space, successfully launching its sixth, commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station Tuesday afternoon. SpaceX successfully launched the Dragon spacecraft into orbit, deploying the vehicle''s solar panels, in preparation for docking with the ISS later this week.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 28, 2017

SpaceX Hyperloop competition winner goes 201 miles per hour, crowdfunding platform FlashFunders Inc. acquired and Hulu Live TV service adds the CW.

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JUNE 5, 2015

Well, one American vacationer visiting the Bahamas got more than he bargained for, when he ran across the wreckage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket , washed up on the beach. The wreckage apparently was from the failed platform landing of the SpaceX booster rocket in April. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX was minutes away from a launch of an Air Force space weather satellite, on its third try, as of Wednesday afternoon--but nixed testing recovery of its first stage, due to "extreme weather" in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX was scheduled to launch at 6:03pm ET. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 9, 2016

Walt Disney to acquire stake in MLB streaming platform for $1 billion, SpaceX Ships rocket to Texas for preliminary testing, West Hollywood’s Opinit acquired by Canadian app developer, and more.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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. Rocket Lab develops small, space launch vehicles, designed specifically for putting small satellites into space.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

SpaceX had successfully landed the Falcon--on land--but has been attempting to land the rocket on a floating platform in the ocean. According to Musk, the Falcon successfully landed on its floating drone ship, but tipped over because one of the four legs that support the rocket did not latch. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has been forced to scrub the launch of the USAF'' DSCOVR space weather satellite for the second time, due to high winds, and will try a launch on Wednesday. spacex falcon satellite usaf force dscovr reusable rocket aerospace nasa space weather' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company said the new funding will go to expand its team and support continued development of its platform. The company says its founders previously had worked for such companies as SpaceX, NASA, Zoox, Toyota, and others.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Hawthorne-based Space eXploration Technologies (SpaceX), the rocket firm backed by Elon Musk, said Monday that the firm has introduced a new, reusable spacecraft as part of its set of products. SpaceX said the new product is aimed at providing a platform for in-space experimentation, both in a pressurized and unpressurized environment.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 9, 2017

Court approves British company’s bid for bankrupt Nasty Gal, SpaceX delays rocket launch one week, telemedicine platform SnapMD raises $3.25 Series A extension, and more.

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MAY 21, 2020

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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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The rocket platform, which is being retired, had 155 total launches. Vandenberg Air Force Base, which has long been a center of rocket launches, has been particularly busy in recent years with launches for both ULA as well as competitor SpaceX. ULA's Delta II rocket first launched in 1989. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

The aircraft is designed for use as a "mobile launch platform" to help carry satellites into orbit, and is currently the world's largest aircraft. According to Stratolaunch, it has successfully been flying its vehicles out in the Mojave desert this week, reaching a top speed of 80 mph for its launch vehicle. READ MORE>>.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two two founders in a garage?—?(HP HP Style) are dead. of the fund.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. Invest in communication skills and use all platforms.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders. Liquidity and transfer of wealth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Master of multi-platform communication and marketing. Even the best solutions these days need to be marketed on multiple platforms, including online, social media, and the proper industry and customer channels for customer geographies. In fact, they may fear team leadership as a burden, or a potential dilution of their ownership.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. So I’m not arguing that the infrastructure building phase of the Internet is over – to the contrary.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. The most obvious, is to drive sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Snap, Riot Games, Tinder, SpaceX and on and on — these are great things for LA as is every new VC fund launching in LA to create the next big innovation. We not only helped launch the space industry (rockets that put a man on the moon were designed here at JPL, which is why our biggest tech startup employer now is SpaceX!)

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