SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts, beating out Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman

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The U.S. Air Force on Friday awarded rocket builders United Launch Alliance and SpaceX with contracts worth billions to launch national security missions.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, carrying the Arabsat 6A communications satellite, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 11, 2019.The U.S. Air Force on Friday awarded rocket builders United Launch Alliance and SpaceX with contracts worth billions to launch national security missions for five years starting in 2022.

The awards represent the second phase of the military's National Security Space Launch program, which is organized by the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, California. Four companies — SpaceX, ULA,and Blue Origin — bid for the contracts, with the military set to spend about $1 billion per year.

The NSSL awards represent nearly three dozen launch contracts, scheduled between 2022 and 2026. ULA won 60% of the launches with SpaceX winning the remaining 40%.

 

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Actually Blue Origin's BE4 motor will be used by ULA. Cheerleading Elon does not require misinformation.

Yasss

Now can SpaceX start returning the billions of taxpayer dollars it got to begin with and then pay for all of the IP it got free from NASA? Or they can provide US with free launch service for the next 20 years. US taxpayers need to have return on the billions provided to SpaceX.

Ouch.

Who’s Money,And where from

Please ipo spaceX elonmusk I would throw every dollar I could at it!

Oh great. I'm sure Bezos will sue again because it's so unfair. It's funny how competition works ain't it Jeff?

Trump's new Space Farce needs payload lifting capability into space.

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