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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? BetterWorks Shutting Down On May 31st - Also in May, What had arguably been one of Silicon Beach's highest profile, and possibly most hyped companies-- BetterWorks --shut down it services, causing widespread anguish among boosters of Silicon Beach and its new.

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SpaceX Targets Wednesday Early AM For Next Launch

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is targeting its next launch for here in Southern California tomorrow, July 25th, at the very, very early morning hours. SpaceX said it will be attempting to launch the Iridum-7 NEXT missio at 4:39 a.m. The launch should be visible to a large chunk of Southern California's residents.

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SpaceX, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Selected For NASA Lunar Landing Effort

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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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NASA Approves SpaceX Space Station Mission For February

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In a major win for SpaceX , the Southern California firm developing commercial rockets for spaceflight, NASA announced Friday that it has approved the SpaceX mission to dock with the International Space Station on Friday. READ MORE>>.

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SpaceX Docks With ISS

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In a resounding success for Southern California spaceflight firm SpaceX , the firm's Dragon capsule successfully docked and was bolted to the International Space Station at 12:02 p.m. SpaceX is now well on its way towards it goal of delivering both cargo and astronauts on a regular basis to space for NASA.

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Techstars Los Angeles names Matt Kozlov as its new managing director

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As the diaspora out of Silicon Valley continues, the Southern California tech world has proven to be a tempting landing pad during the COVID-19 pandemic. base of operations and SpaceX’s significant presence has born a number of talented hardware and engineering startups.

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ViaSat-2 Launched Into Orbit

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Carlsbad-based ViaSat , which provides broadband services and technology, successfully had its newest satellite, the ViaSat-2, delivered into orbit last week, from Kourou, French Guiana. ViaSat said its ViaSat-2 satellite was carried board an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle on its launch on Thursday. READ MORE>>.