It is intended to disconnect the magnate Elon Musk of the Donald Trump administration, but this is not synonymous that both have stopped working together, like the Department of Defense from the United States granted the 60% of the offer From a space to issue space to Spacex, the Musk Aerospace Company.
The national spatial security supply program of the space force will assign approximately 54 Missions until 2029 In orders of incremental tasks, as reported by the command office of space systems.
Spacexcompany to which 28 missions were assigned, He won 5.9 billion dollars. For his part, Ula, the joint company of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has earned $ 5.3 billion for 19 missions and the blue origin obtained seven missions for a combined value of 2.3 billion dollars.
So, Musk’s company He will use Falcon 9 and his most powerful Falcon Heavythree nuclei of falco linked together, for the missions of the Phase 3. Furthermore, according to sources close to the project, Spacex will get the vast majority of missions ordered by Space Force in the first year of the program.
Spacex, a dominant actor
In the last decade, the extent of Elon Musk has promoted to become a dominant actor in the space launch sector.
Its reusable rockets offer a cost reduction capacity that its competitors have required more time to combine, which makes the company Key supplier for the Pentagonwhich also depends more and more on the company for military intelligence based on satellite.
In this way, with Spacex emerging as a Dominant winner in the programMusk did not leave the opportunity to attack Spacex rivals in X, their social media platform.
“Winning 60% of the missions may seem generous, but the reality is that all the Spacex competitors together cannot meet the other 40%. I hope they understand it, but they have not yet succeeded,” he said.
