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SpaceX Blocks Hiring Discrimination Lawsuit
Elon Musk’s rocket company won a court order to block the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit that accused SpaceX of hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers. A district judge in Texas blocked the Justice Department from moving forward with its case on Wednesday, stating that the administrative judges assigned to anti-immigration bias cases…
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Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites
SpaceX has reached a deal to launch four Galileo satellites next year in coordination with the European Space Agency, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Two launches on Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rockets will add to the 28 satellites currently orbiting Earth in Europe’s global navigation system. The deal still must reach a final…
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‘He Has His Apocalyptic Moods’: What Walter Isaacson Has to Say About Elon Musk
If he wasn’t known for running EV car maker Tesla, Elon Musk would still be known for SpaceX, his spacecraft and satellite company with Martian ambitions. Or for Neuralink, a company working on developing implantable brain–computer interfaces. Or for X.AI, the latest entry in the artificial intelligence arms race. Or, of course, for buying social…
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Lawsuit Blasts Amazon’s Choice of Bezos’ Blue Origin for Project Kuiper
An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the company’s founder Jeff Bezos and its board of directors for allegedly exercising bad judgement and not acting in good faith when selecting the launch providers for Project Kuiper. The suit, filed by Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund this week, claims that Amazon’s board of directors…