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The funding comes at a time when SpaceX focuses on building out its Starlink satellite constellation to offer broadband internet commercially by the end of 2020.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arrived at the International Space Station 19 hours after blasting off Saturday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center. Since 2011, it is the first time the U.S. astronauts launched on an American rocket from the U.S. soil to the ISS.