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- Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 12:33 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
- The launch is the company’s 50th of Falcon 9 since the rocket first flew in June 2010.
- The mission is flying a bus-sized satellite to an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth.
While most of America is asleep, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, achieveed a major company milestone on Tuesday.
In 2008, SpaceX was flirting with bankruptcy after three successive rocket failures. Now it’s launched its workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, for the 50th time as it moves to dominate the launch industry.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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