The deal comes after significant scrutiny of the company’s role in the war in Ukraine.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX secured its first Space Force contract early this month and will provide the military with customized satellite communications under its Starshield satellite internet program, marking another defense work push by the aerospace company that was recently scrutinized forThe contract is worth up to $70 million and is set to provide the military with “end-to-end service, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management and other related services,” according to Air Force...
About $15 million will be allocated to SpaceX with funding that supports 54 “mission partners” in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard, according to Stefanek.as a similar, smaller version of the Starlink internet service that “will not have to handle millions of users” and be owned and controlled by the U.S. government.
SpaceX is just one of 19 companies given such a contract by the U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office, Stefanek toldis one of the other companies in addition to SpaceX that are being given work orders through the Space Force’s “Proliferated Low Earth Orbit” contracts program meant to provide “additional resilience for satellite communications” and other military systems.$900 million. That’s the cumulative worth of the work orders being provided by the U.S.
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