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The top Aerospace company of the decade.

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  For decades the aerospace industry has been dominated by federal organizations, for example, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)for the USA, Roscosmos for the Russians, and The European Space Agency for the European Union. That all has been changed by one Company, SpaceX. SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne  Carlifonia. SpaceX  in full   Space Exploration Technologies , Is an  American aerospace company founded in 2002 that helped usher in the era of commercial spaceflight . It was the first private company to successfully launch and return a spacecraft   from Earth orbit   and the first to launch a crewed spacecraft and dock it with the   In   (ISS). Headquarters are in Hawthorne, California . Elon Musk at a Spacex presentation. SpaceX was founded by   Elon Musk in the hopes of revolutionizing the aerospace industry and making affordable spaceflight a reality. The company entered the arena with the  Falcon 1 rocket, a two-stage liquid-fueled craft designed to send

Rocket Labs gives an update on Neutron .

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First presented in March 2021 the Neutron rocket is Rocket Labs' next big thing and at the start of this month, we were given an update about the so-called 2050 rocket.  Rocket Lab's plans for its biggest rocket yet promise to take reusability to the next level, complete with a 'Hungry Hippo' nose cone designed for easier recovery and reuse.  A rendering of Neutron deploying its fairings. Neutron will consist of two booster stages. The first stage features an integrated four-blade payload fairing that opens in orbit like a flower to release the second stage carrying the payload. The entire first stage, fairing included, is designed not only to be fully reusable but also to enable almost immediate relaunch. The second stage that delivers payloads to their target orbits is currently expendable.  Peter Beck(CEO of Rocket Labs) unveiled design details of the new medium-lift booster the Neutron rocket in a video briefing on (Dec.2). It is expected to make its first flight in