SpaceX fired nearly all of the 33 engines on its Starship booster rocket for the first time Thursday, falling just short of its goal ahead of its first launch attempt. The event was still considered a major milestone ahead of the launch, which CEO Elon Musk has said could come as early as March. During the engine test, known as a static fire test, SpaceX put fuel in the rocket before lighting...
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Musk Puts $20 Billion Value on Twitter
Elon Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, said a person familiar with an email Musk sent to staff, less than half what he paid to buy the company. It was a concrete acknowledgment of how much Twitter’s value has dropped since the deal—but it is still well above public market valuation levels for Twitter’s rivals.
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