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JANUARY 24, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX test fired the Falcon Heavy in Florida on Wednesday, in another step forward towards an actual flight of its new design. SpaceX posted a video of the static fire test, which lasted 22 seconds. moon missions in the 1960's.

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JULY 1, 2019

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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JULY 8, 2016

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is opening up a new office in Orange County, in what looks to be an attempt to tap into the area's deep depth of technical talent. Orange County has a large pool of engineers with similar design experience, drawn from such giants as Broadcom and others in the semiconductor industry. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a satellite into space for a Canadian company, as part of a demonstration flight Sunday. The mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, and is being used to demonstrate a new Canadian small satellite bus design. and Associates Ltd (MDA), at 9:00 a.m. PDT Sunday morning. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Hawthorne-based commercial rocket development firm SpaceX --which is led by tech mogul Elon Musk--is setting up a commercial spaceport in Texas, after a number of incentives offered by the state to attract the firm. Most of SpaceX''s recent launches have been from Cape Canaveral, and its design and development has been in Southern California.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

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.

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MAY 10, 2012

Hawthorne-based SpaceX and a firm working on developing its own, orbiting space station designs said Thursday they that have partnered to carry passengers to private space stations on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

Hawthorne-based SpaceX said Tuesday that it is analyzing two small cracks at the end of its 2nd stage, engine nozzle extension, as it decides whether or not it will attempt a launch on Wednesday. SpaceX is the commercial rocket firm backed and headed by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk.

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JULY 13, 2012

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial spaceflight firm run by Elon Musk, said Thursday that it has completed a design review for a crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to reach another milestone in its development of space exploration technology, which is to push the reuse of its rockets even further. SpaceX's latest design, the Falcon 9 Block 5, is designed for nearly continuous reuse with a minimal amount of reconditioning on each rocket.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The first, high tech test tunnel built by LA's The Boring Company , bored between the SpaceX parking lot and a home in Hawthorne, California, is almost complete, and will open to the public on December 10th, according to Boring Company and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Elon Musk , the CEO and founder of Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , hopes to put human beings on Mars in six years, and an uncrewed landing on Mars in about two years, he said yesterday in Germany. SpaceX is currently working on Starship, the company's spacecraft designed for traveling to Mars. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

That’s a one-off vehicle however, intended for the purpose of testing and working out the final design for the Starship, which is meant to be a fully reusable spacecraft, which in tandem with SpaceX’s forthcoming “Super Heavy” booster will be able to take large payloads to orbit — and ultimately to the Moon and Mars.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket and spacecraft developer led by technology mogul Elon Musk, is aiming at its first launch of its new Falcon Heavy rocket for February 6th. SpaceX conducted a static firing test on the new rocket design last week.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

According to Stratolaunch today, it is leveraging technology from both Mojave-based Scaled Composites , and Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies to create a new, air-launch system to provide orbital access to space.

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JULY 8, 2019

SpaceX, which is based in the Los Angeles area, in Hawthorne, has said that it hopes to launch commercial missions on the Starship in 2021. The Starship is ultimately designed to carry people to Mars. Other details on the fire have not yet been provided by SpaceX. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the firm which is developing commercial space launch rockets, said Friday that it has successfully demonstrated a component on the NASA STS-127 shuttle mission.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is not to blame for the reported failure of the super-secret "Zuma" government payload, according to a report today from the WSJ.

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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.

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MAY 2, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX confirmed on Thursday that its Crew Dragon capsule, designed to carry astronauts into space, was destroyed in the accident last month during testing. Videos of the destruction of the capsule were leaked , apparently by either a NASA employee or a NASA contractor last week.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX scrubbed its plans for a launch of another 57 Starlink communications satellites on Friday, saying its team needed additional time for pre-launch checkouts.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is one of three companies which was selected by NASA today to develop lunar landers to land astronauts on the Moon, according to NASA. According to NASA, SpaceX is one of the companies selected to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency's Artemis program.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has moved one step closer to launching its first Crew Dragon into space, saying on Thursday that it has completed a "static firing" test for a planned February launch. SpaceX is hoping to prove out the design for NASA for its own space capsule, to deliver U.S.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

A big Los Angeles area construction and engineering firm, AECOM , said Tuesday that it has been selected to build the first, Hyperloop test track, for a competition being run by Hawthorne-based SpaceX. The size of the contract was not announced. The size of the contract was not announced.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Hawthorne-based rocket and space vehicle developer SpaceX is renaming its upcoming, passenger-carrying rocket--the BFR--to "Starship", and will refer to the rocket booster as "Super Heavy", according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. The BFR (now Starship) is designed to send up to 100 people into space at once, and is 347 feet long.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has unveiled the name of the person who has booked an around the Moon trip on its BFR rocket on Monday evening, saying that it's Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Hawthorne, California-based rocket developer SpaceX conducted a high-altitude, suborbital flight of its Starship spacecraft on Wednesday, successfully launching the vehicle to high altitudes--but ending with a spectacular explosion of the Starship just as it reached the ground.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is continuing its hectic pace of rocket launches, saying that it it targeting a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this afternoon, at 6:32 p.m. EDT, of a payload for NASA.

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MAY 12, 2016

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, designed and launched by Hawthorne-based SpaceX , successfully returned to earth on Wednesday, splashing down 261 miles southwest of Long Beach with more than 3,700 pounds of cargo. NASA said that the craft splashed down at 2:51 p.m.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The SpaceX Crew Dragon , the spacecraft being designed by Hawthorne-based SpaceX to deliver astronauts into orbit, suffered what appears to be a major issue in testing on Saturday during an engine test--sending smoke billowing from its test location which was visible from miles away.

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MARCH 4, 2019

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched its first mission of a spacecraft designed to carry human beings into space, sending the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft into space early Saturday morning, and successfully docking the spacecraft at the ISS on Sunday.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has shifted the launch time for its first attempt to launch its new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, to 2:50 PM ET, as a result of upper level wind shear. SpaceX says the Falcon Heavy was designed to carry humans into space, and to restore the possibility of flying human missions to the moon and Mars.

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JULY 29, 2016

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has just won another mission to the International Space Station, NASA said Friday , to help "restore America's human spaceflight launch capability". According to NASA, the second, post-certification mission by SpaceX will deliver a human crew to the ISS, part of a slate of missions designed to again provide U.S.

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JULY 11, 2018

Hawthorne, California-based rocket launch provider SpaceX may be looking to deliver its own spacecraft to Mars, however, in the meantime, it's now set to deliver a spacecraft to the Moon for a nonprofit group in Israel.

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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. The firm said the new spacecraft is designed to launch on its Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Hawthorne-based SpaceX, the high profile commercial space vehicle firm headed by Elon Musk, said this weekend that it has successfully conducted a full mission-length firing of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle's first stage.

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JULY 14, 2016

The next launch for Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planned for Monday, in what NASA says will be the ninth Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. The ring is designed to help connect the ISS to other spacecraft, as they deliver astronauts to the station in the future.

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