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🇺🇸 US
🔴 SpaceX Wins 60% of New Military Launch Contracts

🔸 $13.7B awarded for 54 critical missions to 2032; SpaceX gets 28 launches.
🔸 ULA to fly 19 missions with Vulcan; Blue Origin enters with 7 for New Glenn.
🔸 SpaceX has 140 launches in past year—dominates readiness & reliability.
🔸 Space Force eyes multi-vendor resilience amid growing global threats.

#kleptocracy & #corruption on full display:

Exclusive: #SpaceX, #ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar #Pentagon launch contract

#ElonMusk's SpaceX & United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a #US #SpaceForce rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive #satellites into #space, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the procurement decision.

#law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #USpol
reuters.com/business/aerospace

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#Amazon is under time pressure ⏱️. The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by 📆 July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 ⏳. More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launch

heise online · Amazon launches the first internet satellites for Project Kuiper next weekBy Frank Schräer
#Kuiper#ULA#Ariane6

"With Vulcan’s certification, Space Force is no longer solely reliant on SpaceX" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - US Space Force approves United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket for carrying #military payloads after two successful orbital test launches. There was extra paperwork due to a solid rocket nozzle failure on cert flight 2. Though that launch succeeded anyway by running the 2nd stage longer. arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/ #ULA #VulcanCentaur #space #business

Ars Technica · With Vulcan’s certification, Space Force is no longer solely reliant on SpaceXBy Eric Berger
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The loss of a solid rocket motor nozzle on the second flight of #ULA’s #Vulcan Centaur last October was caused by a manufacturing defect that has been corrected. The #AirForce had concluded ULA “has performed unsatisfactorily”. That report also said the Air Force was assessing if it was feasible to reassign launches awarded to ULA to an “alternate provider,” which would be #SpaceX. spacenews.com/manufacturing-de

SpaceNews · Manufacturing defect blamed for Vulcan solid rocket motor anomalyBy Jeff Foust

@ProPublica There have to be many, many parties who are damaged by #elonmusk 's blatant conflicts of interest.

Is there any sign that #SpaceX 's corporate competitors are attempting to hold them accountable?

#boeing, #ula, #blueorigin and others ... are they not responding to this and the #nasa contract : msn.com/en-us/autos/news/leake

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