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You’d expect SpaceX’s founder, Elon Musk, to be happy about winning a $492 million contract from Iridium to launch 72 of its next-generation telecommunication satellites, in what he called “the biggest commercial launch deal in history.” “We won a competition against the rest of the world,” the rocket company’s 38-year-old CEO said today during a teleconference [...] Space entrepreneur Elon Musk made history last week with the successful launch of his Falcon 9 rocket, but he has acknowledged that he worried a few years ago that his project would have to shut down for lack of cash. The story of how Mr. Musk’s start-up, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., managed to buck financial turbulence—at [...] The Falcon 9, SpaceX’s highest hope for transferring astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station had a successful test launch today. One of the remarkable technological features of this spacecraft is its ability to reinitiate a launch sequence soon after a launch abort. With the Space Shuttle, if a launch abort was [...] |
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