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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
SpaceX hopes to launch the fourth test flight of its Starship megarocket just six weeks or so from now, according to the company's president and COO.
This test will attempt to repeat many of the objectives achieved in the last test. Starship will once again try to send back the booster for mid-air capture with the launch tower's so-called "chopsticks" and have a controlled splash down of the spacecraft in the Indian Ocean. The switch...
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The booster also helped launch two GPS satellites, another Starlink batch and two pioneering private crewed missions. SpaceX has launched nearly 2,400 Starlink satellites to date, 10 of the company's 17 launches so far this year have been dedicated Starlink missions....
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In 2018, SpaceX logged an estimated $2 billion in launchrevenue, compared with an industry-wide total of $8 billion.22A research note published by Morgan Stanley in October 2020 valued SpaceX at $100 billion, based on its Starlink satellite broadband business.23 In March 2020, Gwynne Shotwell...