SpaceX Lands Major Contract

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on June 16, 2010 9:18 AM | | Comments (0) |

SpaceX, the Hawthorne-based maker of low-cost rockets, landed a $492 million contract from Iridium Communications Inc., the largest single commercial launch deal ever signed.

The contract calls for SpaceX to use it Falcon 9 rocket to launch Iridium satellites into orbit.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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