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SpaceX's Hardest Launch Shows Musk Fortune Diverging From Tesla
Elon Musk speaks during an event at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/BloombergEarly this morning at Cape Canaveral, employees of Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. rejoiced.
A Falcon Heavy delivered 24 satellites into three distinct orbits while the rocket’s twin boosters landed safely back on Earth almost simultaneously. Apart from the failure of the center booster to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the mission that Musk had described as SpaceX’s toughest test yet had been a success.