SpaceX Acquires Swarm Technologies
L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 9, 2021
SpaceX has agreed to purchase Swarm Technologies, which designs small satellites to manage internet-of-things services.
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L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 9, 2021
SpaceX has agreed to purchase Swarm Technologies, which designs small satellites to manage internet-of-things services.
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 21, 2020
SpaceX closed out a record-breaking year of launches with the completion of its 26th mission for 2020.
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TechCrunch LA
APRIL 17, 2018
The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. SpaceX says the BFR is simply too big to be transported by roads. Announced last September SpaceX intends for the reusable BFR to eventually replace its Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy rockets. .
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
After operating in stealth mode for about two years, First Resonance , a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, is finally showing the world their software toolkit designed to let manufacturers make things using the processes employed by their former boss.
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Meanwhile, we saw significant progress in SpaceX’s commercial crew program, and plenty of activity among startups big and small. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon arrives in Florida. The spacecraft that SpaceX will use to fly astronauts for the first time is now in Florida, at its launch site for final preparations before it takes off.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 16, 2021
The next astronauts to land on the Moon will likely do so in a spacecraft designed by SpaceX.
L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 25, 2021
SpaceX set a record on Jan. 24, carrying 143 small satellites into space — the most ever deployed in a single launch.
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 14, 2020
SpaceX launched its 25th successful mission for this year on Dec. 13, deploying an audio satellite for Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 13, 2013
The new venture is being backed by Accenture, DAQRI, and NVIDIA, along with Google and SpaceX. LACMA''s Advisory Board includes SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell. lacma google spacex artists accenture daqri nvidia' READ MORE>>.
L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 16, 2021
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning a mission to the International Space Station on Aug.
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 30, 2020
SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
If you''re looking at Hawthorne-based rocket firm SpaceX as the next big IPO in Southern California, you might have to look again. Founder and CEO Elon Musk said this week that he doesn''t have any intention of taking SpaceX public, because the "goals of SpaceX are very long-term, which is to establish a city on Mars."
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 19, 2019
Alumni of SpaceX are leading a renaissance in aerospace.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Fans of SpaceX , the rocket launch and spacecraft company founded by technology mogul Elon Musk, have yet another opportunity to see SpaceX send a spacecraft into space from Southern California, as early as Wednesday. Image: Artist's rendering of the Spaceflight SSO-A payload, via Spaceflight. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
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. pic.twitter.com/EZF4JOT8e4 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 24, 2018. moon missions in the 1960's.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Anyone who someone managed to completely miss the last SpaceX launch in Southern California--the UFO-report-spurring, traffic-stopping launch of a set of satellites in December --might want to get up a little early on Saturday morning, and look to the North and West. PDT on Saturday, February 17th.
L.A. Business Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
SpaceX is planning a new mission with a crew entirely made up of civilians later this year.
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Instead, several former SpaceX employees have launched a raft of new companies, capturing the imagination and dollars of some of the biggest names in venture capital. Perhaps the most successful SpaceX offshoot is Relativity Space , founded by Jordan Noone and Tim Ellis. “ It was a company in LA more than it was an LA company.”
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX delayed its anticipated launch of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite over the weekend, saying that it needed to conduct additional testing on the Falcon 9's fairing's pressurization system before launch. SpaceX had hoped to launch the Hispasat 30W-6 mission on Sunday mornig from Florida.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a payload of ten satellites into space for satellite constellation operator Iridium on Friday evening, from Vandenberg Air Force Base--in a launch which turned heads across the Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
APRIL 12, 2019
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is looking to raise another $510M in funding--the second time the firm has gone out for funding this year-- according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The funding will bring SpaceX's total raised to more than $2.75 billion, and reportedly values the rocket firm at over $30 billion.
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2020
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that he has moved to Texas, confirming months of speculation that the billionaire would leave California, a state of which he has become increasingly critical. His other privately held company, SpaceX, is planning a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.
socalTECH
MARCH 5, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX said today that it is now targeting launch of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite for tonight, at 12:33 a.m. SpaceX--which had originally planned to launch the satellite payload in February--said the satellite will be the largest, geostationary satellite the company has ever flown. EST, or 5:33 UTC.
L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 16, 2021
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning a mission to the International Space Station on Aug.
socalTECH
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.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to launch 60 additional Starlink satellites today, with a target launch of 6:56 a.m. According to SpaceX, the new set of Starlink satellites will fly on a previously flown Falcon 9, along with a previously flown fairing. PST, from its lauchpad at Cape Canaveral.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
In the biggest rocket to leave the planet since 1973, Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has successfully sent its Falcon Heavy on its way to space, lifting off the new rocket off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:45PM ET.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 15, 2017
SpaceX has successfully launched a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this morning, the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission, in the first time the rocket and spacecraft developer has used a previously launched Falcon 9 first stage, as well as previously used Dragon spacecraft for NASA.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 23, 2021
SpaceX launched its third crewed mission April 23, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station.
socalTECH
JANUARY 15, 2018
SpaceX successfully returned its Dragon capsule to earth, with around 4,100 pounds of scientific research and hardware on Saturday, after nearly a month parked at the International Space Station. Separately, SpaceX is gearing up for a static "test" firing of its new Falcon Heavy today in Florida. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
JANUARY 9, 2018
A report in the Wall Street Journal this morning says that the highly secret rocket mission launched by Los Angeles-based SpaceX on Sunday was presumed to be a total loss, and failed to reach orbit. For its part, SpaceX told the WSJ that its launch was "nominal".
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 1, 2020
SpaceX successfully launched the company's first mission for the U.S. Space Force.
socalTECH
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. According to a SpaceX official, the company is about to relaunch one of its boosters for the third time.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has just signed a deal to deliver two robot payloads to the moon for a small Japanese company, ispace , ispace said this morning. According to ispace, it has signed a contract with SpaceX for two flights to land two lunar orbiters on the moon.
socalTECH
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.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX , in an attempt to further hone its technology to be able to catch the rocket fairings off of its spacecraft, was running a test on Monday afternoon off the back side of Catalina Island, dropping that fairing to Mr. Steven, its fairing-catching marine vessel. READ MORE>>.
L.A. Business Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
SpaceX lost another prototype of its Starship rocket when a test flight of the enormous spacecraft ended in a crash landing.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 27, 2014
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L.A. Business Journal
JUNE 22, 2020
the Hawthorne-based aerospace company, launched 58 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket on June 13, then successfully landed the rocket on a waiting SpaceX ship at sea. Space Exploration Technologies Corp.,
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX , the commercial space exploration firm run by Elon Musk, is looking to raised $750M in a leveraged loan offering, according to a report on Tuesday. The loan effort is being led by BofA Merrill Lynch.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has just delayed its upcoming satellite launch mission--of the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express --due to the incoming weather system into California. According to SpaceX, the launch is being delayed to extreme high-altitude winds that violate its Range requirements.
socalTECH
MAY 22, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to launch another set of satellites into space for Iridium, as well as a mission for NASA. SpaceX said in pre-launch broadcast that it will attempt to again catch the fairing off the rocket, but will not attempt to recover the Falcon 9's first stage.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Hawthorne-based SpaceX , led by Elon Musk, is seeking another $250M in funding, which would value SpaceX at an astounding $36 billion. CNBC said that SpaceX raised $1.33 According to CNBC, the funding will go towards the Crew Dragon, Starlink, and Starship. billion in 2019. READ MORE>>.
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