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Mike Wehner
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SpaceX is by far the largest and most successful private spaceflight company ever, and it's been able to carve its place in the history books thanks to a lot of out-of-the-box thinking. The company pioneered reusable rocket boosters and successfully developed the Falcon 9, which has a ridiculously shiny record of spotless launches. The first stage boosters are recovered with such regularity that it's a Falcon 9 touchdown is barely even news anymore.
What most certainly will be news is the construction and future launches from SpaceX's Deimos and Phobos platforms, which the company will use in the future as launch sites for its various rockets. A new launch site might not seem like that big of a deal, but the location of Phobos and Deimos makes them pretty special. The two platforms are former oil rigs, and the plan is to perch them in the ocean and conduct launches from far offshore.
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