Following a failed satellite launch last week, Elon Musk’s firm SpaceX might end up having to pay its client $50 million to cover damages or offer it a free flight beyond the stratosphere. Israel’s Space Communication Ltd. said in a conference call on Sunday it could seek compensation for the botched launch, which caused the destruction of its new Amos-6 communications satellite at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch site in Florida on Thursday. The satellite was leased by Facebook, which planned to use it to beam internet access to rural sub-Saharan Africa. The Israeli firm, also known as…

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