SpaceX Wins $733 Million In New Pentagon Contracts

Ars Technica reports:

The US Space Force’s Space Systems Command announced Friday it has ordered nine launches from SpaceX in the first batch of dozens of missions the military will buy in a new phase of competition for lucrative national security launch contracts. The nine launches are divided into two fixed-price “task orders” that Space System Command opened up for bids earlier this year.

One covers seven launches with groups of spacecraft for the Space Development Agency’s constellation of missile tracking and data relay satellites. The other task order is for two missions for the National Reconnaissance Office, the US government’s spy satellite agency.

The parameters of the competition limited the bidders to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA). SpaceX won both task orders for a combined value of $733.5 million, or roughly $81.5 million per mission.

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