(opens in new tab)<\/span>, was sent to employees during the Thanksgiving weekend. It asked them to pitch in over the holiday unless they had “critical family matters” or couldn’t physically make it to SpaceX’s Los Angeles-area factory.<\/p>\nStarship is the next-generation vehicle that NASA picked to land astronauts on the moon a few years from now.<\/p>\n
SpaceX also supplies cargo ships and astronaut vehicles for NASA, military satellites for the United States, and Starlink broadband satellites for remote customers around the world. In recent months, Starlink service expanded quickly in Ukraine to support the country after it was besieged by Russia starting Feb. 24.<\/p>\n
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