Elon Musk has scored bragging rights in the battle of billionaires in space after his SpaceX rockets beat competition from Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to launch National Security payloads for the U.S. Air Force
Craig, The Billionaire Behind Craigslist, Is Spending Nearly $200 Million To Save Journalism, Beat President Trump And End Information WarfareOn Friday, Musk’s SpaceX and United Launch Alliance-a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing- won two contracts for National Security Space launch services worth a combined $653 million for “launch services” starting in 2022 for a 5-year period.
The competition was launched in 2018 after the U.S. decided to stop using Russian rockets against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions, namely the threats to stop industrial exports following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. With U.S. government departments increasingly leaning on entrepreneurs to drive down the price of doing business in space, Dr. William Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, said a statement announcing the competition awards on Friday, that “Maintaining a competitive launch market, servicing both government and commercial customers, is how we encourage continued innovation on assured access to space.
Bruegger was not surprised to see the selection of one established player ULA, with its connections to Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and a new face from the billionaire entrepreneurial class in Elon Musk and SpaceX. Awarding the contract to two new players, Bruegger says, might well have seemed “too risky.” SpaceX is also, for now, “more established” than Blue Origin, according to Bruegger, having fulfilled government missions for years.
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