US Space Force awards SpaceX $730 million to launch at least 9 national-security missions
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- Oct 18, 2024
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The Space Force statement does not provide details about the seven planned SDA launches.
It does say, however, that the "mission set" for the NRO, which operates the United States' fleet of spy satellites, will launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 and the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026. So the task order apparently covers at least two liftoffs. (The fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.)
Both of the new task orders were awarded under an "indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity" contract that the Space Force signed with SpaceX — as well as Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance — in June of this year.
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