The deal puts Elon Musk's private space exploration company in charge of 40% of launch mission services from the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missiles Systems Center through fiscal year 2024.
The deal puts Elon Musk's private space exploration company in charge of 40% of launch mission services from the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missiles Systems Center through fiscal year 2024. It puts ULA -- the joint venture backed by Lockheed Martin and Boeing -- in charge of 60% of launch services, the U.S. Air Force announced last Friday.
The first of the launches are scheduled for liftoff in fiscal year 2022. Initial contracts will be issued to the ULA for $337 million and SpaceX for $316 million for launch services to meet fiscal year 2022 launch dates, according to the Air Force. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, lifts off during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 30, 2020.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, lifts off during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 30, 2020."This landmark award begins the dawn of a new decade in U.S. launch innovation, while promoting competition, maintaining a healthy industrial base, and reinforcing our global competitive advantage," Lt. Gen.
"This acquisition will maintain our unprecedented mission success record, transition National Security Space payloads to new launch vehicles, assure access for current and future space architectures, and cultivate innovative mission assurance practices," Thompson added.
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