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SpaceX wins $149M Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites

By Tyler Van Dyke
Published October 6, 2020 3:46pm ET
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SpaceX wins $149M Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites
Elon Musk’s SpaceX was awarded a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon. The Space Development Agency announced Monday that SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies were awarded a combined $342 million “to build out Tranche 0 of the tracking layer for the National Defense Space Architecture.” Each company will build four overhead persistent […]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX was awarded a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon.

The Space Development Agency announced Monday that SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies were awarded a combined $342 million “to build out Tranche 0 of the tracking layer for the National Defense Space Architecture.”

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