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Elon Musk's SpaceX wins a $149 million Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites [businessinsider.com]

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 [reuters.com]. The plant is where SpaceX builds satellites for Starlink, a constellation of satellites designed to beam the internet around the world [businessinsider.com].

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 [spacenews.com]

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