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SpaceX Plans to Start Launching Rockets Every Two To Three Weeks (fortune.com)

Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010, once a new launch pad is put into service in Florida next week. From a report: The ambitious plan comes only five months after a SpaceX rocket burst into flames on the launch pad at the company's original launch site in Florida. SpaceX, controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, has only launched one rocket since then, in mid-January. "We should be launching every two to three weeks," SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in an interview on Monday.

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  1. SpaceX plans to waste tons of fucking money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Seriously? Is there THAT much shit being sent into space? The entire US landscape looks like an episode of Hoarders, and now we need to turn space into a junk pile as well?