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SpaceX, the private rocket producer run by billionaire Elon Musk, has reached a deal with the European Space Agency to launch four navigation and communications satellites into orbit, the Wall Street Journal reports, marking the first time the European Union has partnered with the Musk-led company on a satellite containing classified information.
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SpaceX will launch four of the EU’s Galileo satellites from the U.S. next year in two rounds, using the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, Javier Benedicto, the European Space Agency’s director of navigation, told the Journal.
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