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Sixty SpaceX-operated small satellites aboard the Falcon 9 rocket were sent to low Earth orbit to join the Starlink broadband constellation that is being established by the company to deliver high-speed broadband internet connection to rural or remote communities.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for driving company growth, developing groundbreaking space technology and expanding our space capabilities. This marks the fourth time in her federal career that Shotwell has won a Wash100 Award. 

Blue Origin plans to offer cargo delivery services to the moon by 2023 as the company develops a landing system for NASA's crewed mission to the lunar surface, GeekWire reported Friday.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 awardee, discussed in a video interview posted Monday about the company's partnership with Microsoft to bring the Starlink satellite connectivity to the latter's Azure cloud computing platform.

The U.S. Transportation Command has partnered with SpaceX and San Antonio, Texas-based space architecture company XArc to conduct a research and development effort on the potential use of rockets to rapidly deliver military cargo.

The U.S. Space Force has signed a contract modification that allows SpaceX to recover and reuse the first-stage booster of the Falcon 9 rocket for future missions under the National Security Space Launch program.

SES has selected United Launch Alliance and SpaceX to help send C-band satellites to orbit in a push to achieve the Federal Communications Commission's goals to accelerate 5G deployment.

NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken have returned to Earth aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft after spending 64 days in orbit as part of the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer at SpaceX and a former Wash100 winner, told reporters the company wants to send astronauts to space by May, CNBC reported Tuesday.

Axiom Space and SpaceX have signed an agreement for the former to provide operational support for the Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station slated for 2021.

SpaceX plans to spin off and launch an initial public offering for its space internet subsidiary Starlink, Bloomberg reported Friday. “Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink is the right kind of business that we can go ahead and take public,“ Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 award winner, said Thursday at a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-hosted event in Miami.

NanoRacks is slated to field eight small satellites and a demonstration tool aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of a planned rideshare mission in 2020.

The U.S. Air Force and SpaceX are testing the capacity of the latter's Starlink satellite constellation to provide encrypted broadband connectivity to military transport planes, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Intuitive Machines is slated to launch its Nova-C lunar lander aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to carry five NASA payloads to the moon in 2021 under the Artemis program.

Executives from United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and other launch services firms discussed their companies' interest in the government market during a panel discussion at the World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris Tuesday, SpaceNews reported.