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SpaceX is reducing its workforce by 10 percent

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SpaceX employees cheer a Falcon 9 liftoff at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. (SpaceX Photo)

SpaceX says it’s reducing its workforce by about 10 percent as part of a strategic realignment to focus the California-based company on providings its global Starlink satellite broadband service and furthering CEO Elon Musk’s drive to make humanity a multiplanet species.

Word of the reductions came just hours after SpaceX executed its first Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year, putting 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into low Earth orbit, and a day after Musk hailed the assembly of a subscale test prototype for SpaceX’s interplanetary Starship spacecraft.

Assuming that the company currently employs more than 6,000 people, a 10 percent cut would amount to 600 jobs.

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By Alan Boyle

Mastermind of Cosmic Log, contributing editor at GeekWire, author of "The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference," president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Check out "About Alan Boyle" for more fun facts.

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