{"id":1054,"date":"2025-10-08T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:54:16","slug":"spacex-united-launch-alliance-awarded-space-force-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/spacex-united-launch-alliance-awarded-space-force-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, United Launch Alliance awarded Space Force contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA) <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/542728-pentagon-awards-160m-in-contracts-to-musks-spacex\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-space-force-launches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have been given contracts<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-space-force-launches\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-space-force-launches\/\">high-priority national security <\/a>missions budgeted in fiscal year 2026, the U.S. Space Force announced.<\/p>\n<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, which has five of the seven missions, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-lands-majority-of-u-s-national-security-launches-awarded-for-fiscal-year-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-lands-majority-of-u-s-national-security-launches-awarded-for-fiscal-year-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was awarded<\/a> contracts worth $714 million; ULA&#8217;s contracts are worth $428 million.<\/p>\n<p>The missions include satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office and the Wideband Global SATCOM system that supports the military&#8217;s communications network.<\/p>\n<p>Launches will begin in 2027 once the spacecraft are ready.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin is also cleared to compete for national security missions, but its New Glenn rocket has not yet been certified for national security launches.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, with its reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/space\/ap-spacex-rocket-being-tested-in-texas-explodes-but-no-injuries-reported\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/space\/ap-spacex-rocket-being-tested-in-texas-explodes-but-no-injuries-reported\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rockets<\/a>, continues to be the dominant player in space.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Force anticipates a total of 54 launches in the program in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA) have been given contracts for high-priority national security missions budgeted in fiscal ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}