Spektr-R goes quiet, Dragon splashes down and SpaceX lays off
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/15/space_roundup/
Roundup While China's rover kept on trundling, the news was not so cheery for workers in the US space sector or radio telescope fans over the past week.
SpaceX celebrated the launch of 10 more satellites for Iridium and the erection of its crew-capable Dragon spacecraft by, er, announcing it needed to shed around 10 per cent of its 6,000 employees.