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Air Force Certifies SpaceX to Launch Military Satellites
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. Photo by John Schreiber. Hawthorne-based SpaceX is now certified to launch military satellites, ending a long-held monopoly by the Boeing and Lockheed joint venture...
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WATCH: Hawthorne-based SpaceX explodes after launch
A space vehicle engineered in the South Bay blew up as it was being launched from Florida on Sunday, a setback for Hawthorne-based SpaceX. The second stage of the rocket failed 139 seconds after...
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SpaceX blames June rocket failure on flawed strut in 2nd stage
SpaceX rocket blew up 138 seconds after launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 28. Photo courtesy of NASA Hawthorne-based SpaceX said Monday a flawed strut in the second stage of its Falcon...
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Would you go to space station on private rocket? SpaceX gets NASA OK
SpaceX, the Hawthorne-based private space company, will be sending humans to the space station. NASA announced Friday that SpaceX is being awarded its first contract from the feds to send humans to the...
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Private SpaceX triumph: Rocket launch, landing and 11 satellites in orbit
The Falcon 9 booster seconds after landing at Cape Canaveral. Image from SpaceX live stream There were smiles all around Tuesday morning at Hawthorne-based SpaceX after the private space company pulled...
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SpaceX ready for another private rocket blastoff
A SpaceX booster attempting to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Kennedy. Photo courtesy SpaceX One month after making history by landing a booster rocket upright back on Earth after...
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SpaceX rocket lands hard on ‘Just Read The Directions’ barge
The damaged SpaceX booster stage lying on the barge. Image from Elon Musck’s Twitter feed A weather satellite was successfully launched into space atop a rocket booster built by Hawthorne-based SpaceX...
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Private SpaceX scrubs rocket launch in Florida, will try again Thursday
A SpaceX booster attempting to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Kennedy. Photo courtesy SpaceX Hawthorne-based SpaceX scrubbed the launch of one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape...
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SpaceX scrubs rocket launch second day in a row
A SpaceX booster attempting to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Kennedy. Photo courtesy SpaceX For the second straight day, Hawthorne-based SpaceX scrubbed a planned launch Thursday of a...
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk splits from British actress wife Talulah Riley–again
Dublin, Wednesday 31th October 2013: Pictured at the The Web Summit 2013, RDS. Photo by Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media British actress Talulah Riley Monday filed divorce papers to end her marriage to tech...
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SpaceX makes history: recovers rocket that sent craft to intl. station
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. Photo by John Schreiber. Hawthorne-based SpaceX made history again Friday when it successfully launched a spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space...
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Hawthorne’s SpaceX sending a Red Dragon spacecraft to Mars in 2018
Photo by John Schreiber. Hawthorne-based aerospace company SpaceX announced plans Wednesday to send one of the company’s Dragon spaceships to Mars as soon as 2018. The mission is billed as a test...
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Sky’s the limit for SpaceX: New launch, new prize
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Image from company video On the day the company plans to launch another communications satellite into orbit, Hawthorne-based SpaceX was named Thursday the winner of the National...
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Another win for SpaceX: Spacecraft splashdown after month at space station
A SpaceX Dragon capsule is tested at Cape Canaveral. Courtesy SpaceX A spacecraft built and operated by Hawthorne-based SpaceX splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Wednesday after spending about a month...
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Half-hour hyperloop LA to San Francisco? SpaceX, Tesla guy’s dream
Photo courtesy of Hyperloop. A Los Angeles-based company working to make a 30- minute trip between the Southland and San Francisco a reality by using a so- called “hyperloop” took a major step...
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SpaceX breakthroughs almost routine: Another rocket success
The SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying THAICOM 8 shortly after liftoff. Photo from video Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched — and landed — another Falcon 9 rocket on Friday afternoon, boosting the...
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SpaceX to launch 9th mission aboard Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Photo by John Schreiber. SpaceX confirmed Friday that the company is targeting the launch of its ninth NASA Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-9) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral,...
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SpaceX does it again! Great launch, great return
The SpaceX Falcon 9 shortly after launch late Sunday night. Courtesy SpaceX Twitter SpaceX has notched another successful launch using its Falcon 9 rocket. The Hawthorne-based company announced Monday...
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Fire scorches battery room at SpaceX plant in Hawthorne
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. Photo by John Schreiber. A fire broke out in a battery room at SpaceX in Hawthorne, but no one was injured. The fire was reported just before 8 p.m. Monday at the Elon...
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Wanna rent a used space rocket?
A SpaceX Falcon 9 at launch. Courtesy SpaceX Twitter Wanna rent a used rocket? Hawthorne-based SpaceX is becoming the world’s first used rocket dealer after it signed a deal with a Luxembourg satellite...
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