SpaceX to Cut Workforce as It Prepares to Develop Interplanetary Spacecraft, Space-Based Internet

The SpaceX headquarters is shown in Hawthorne, California, U.S. on Sept. 19, 2018. Mike Blake/Reuters

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will reduce its workforce by about 10 percent of the company’s more than 6,000 employees, it said on Jan. 11.

The company said it will “part ways” with some of its manpower, citing “extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead.”