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SpaceX and L3Harris Awarded Pentagon Contracts to Build Missile-Tracking Satellites

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:06AM   
from the who-does-the-launches? dept.

takyon writes:

Elon Musk's SpaceX wins a $149 million Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites

Elon Musk's SpaceX has landed a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon.

SpaceX would build four satellites in its assembly plant in Redmond, Washington, the US Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, per Reuters. The plant is where SpaceX builds satellites for Starlink, a constellation of satellites designed to beam the internet around the world.

This is SpaceX's first government contract to build satellites.

The four satellites would be fitted with a wide-angle infrared missile-tracking sensor supplied by a subcontractor, an SDA official said.

See also: L3Harris, SpaceX win Space Development Agency contracts to build missile-warning satellites

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• Re:Experience? (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday October 07 2020, @03:32PM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday October 07 2020, @03:32PM (#1061658) Journal

  If SpaceX is adapting its cheap, mass-produced Starlink design, which costs $250k-$500k each, then they have instantly succeeded at building overpriced satellites.

  I don't know if that's the case, but it would sure allow them to underbid L3Harris and still make an insane profit margin.

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