SpaceX won the satellite launch contract of the US Department of Defense

Soon after the United Launch Alliance was refused by the US Department of Defense to sign a contract to launch its military satellite, the Federal Court issued a restriction on using the Russian and company SpaceX rocket engines. billionaire Elon Musk jumped in to "sneak up on" this lucrative deal and the battle ended when the Pentagon announced that the company was the winner.

SpaceX won the contract to launch satellites from United Launch Alliance

Accordingly, SpaceX will be responsible for bringing 3 GPS satellites of US Air Force Commander to space in the near future. These satellites are of the new generation, able to increase the accuracy of better positioning and are more resistant to signal interference from extraterrestrial agents than the older generation. The Pentagon and SpaceX agreed upon the launch time will fall in 2018.

SpaceX rocket.

In fact, SpaceX's "robbery " started in May this year after the US Air Force Commander licensed SpaceX to take part in military satellite launches after the company. took the advantage in a bid with United Launch Alliance - a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed - which has been the exclusive partner of the Pentagon since 2006. This has opened up great opportunities for SpaceX with The government's military space has a total value of about $ 9.5 billion.

United Launch Alliance has performed more than 100 launches for the Pentagon with the Atlas-5 missile system using engines on Russian-made RD-180 fire. The joint venture and the Pentagon once planned to wait for the US Congress to license large quantities of RD-180, but the tension between the two countries on Ukraine matters has made this proposal put aside. At this time, SpaceX was able to demonstrate the capabilities of the Falcon 9 missiles they produced after many trials with much cheaper prices than Atlas-5.