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Activist group SumOfUs.org has included tech companies such as IBM, SpaceX, Tesla, and Uber among 19 corporations “named and shamed” as supporters of US President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration policy.

Global mobile satellite communications company Inmarsat has inked an agreement with Arianespace to launch its S-band satellite for the European Aviation Network (EAN) on an Ariane 5 heavy lift launch vehicle.

Israeli nonprofit, SpaceIL, a competitor in the Google Lunar XPrize competition, is the first of 16 teams to secure a verified launch contract for its lunar lander to be launched into space on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.

Iridium Communications (Iridium) and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announced on June 16, 2010, that they will be joining forces so that SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket can provide launch servives for Iridium's NEXT satellite constellation.

At about 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT) on Friday, June 4, 2010, the Falcon 9 rocket blasted from its Cape Canaveral launch pad and soon it reached its intended goal: Earth orbit. The successful mission, spearheaded by Elon Musk, is only the beginning of a still-shaky future for the privatization of U.S. manned space exploration.

Reports from eastern Australia of an UFO spiraling around in the sky Saturday morning (June 5, 2010) has been explained as the Falcon 9 rocket that was launched by private space transport company SpaceX from Cape Canaveral in the United States.

At 2:45 p.m. on Friday, June 4, 2010, the privately funded Falcon 9 rocket was launched successfully into space from its space pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The Falcon 9 rocket is ready for its maiden test flight on June 4, 2010. The privately funded rocket, built by the U.S. space transport company SpaceX, is a key commercial component in the future of U.S. space exploration and development.

With Obama and Congress still unsure about how NASA should proceed with its manned space program, NASA continues with privately funded companies as a way to transport cargo and astronauts back and forth into space. As of April 2010, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is preparing for its maiden launch from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 30.