SpaceX
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Awards
Space Force Adds Impulse Space and Relativity Federal to $5.6B Lane 1 Launch Pool
Space Force awarded Impulse Space and Relativity Federal spots on the $5.6B NSSL Lane 1 launch IDIQ, adding an upper-stage-only prime and a reusable-rocket startup to a pool that now spans seven companies through FY2029.
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SpaceX Lands $2.29 Billion Space Force Contract for Military Satellite Data Backbone
SpaceX secured a $2.29 billion firm-fixed-price OTA delivery order to build the Space Data Network Backbone, a secure LEO constellation delivering low-latency data transport across the joint force, with a fully operational prototype required by end of 2027.
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SpaceX Wins $4.16 Billion Space Force Award to Build Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator Constellation
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX $4.16 billion under an Other Transaction Authority agreement to build a Starshield-based satellite constellation that detects and tracks airborne moving targets, with an initial operational capability targeted for 2028.
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SpaceX Wins $2.29B Space Force Contract to Build Starshield-Based Space Data Network Backbone
Space Systems Command awarded SpaceX a $2.29B Other Transaction Agreement to build the Space Data Network Backbone, a militarized Starshield LEO constellation delivering worldwide tactical communications and broadband, with a fully operational prototype required by end of 2027.
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Space Force Awards $3.2 Billion to 12 Companies to Prototype Golden Dome Space-Based Interceptors
Space Systems Command awarded 20 Other Transaction Authority contracts worth up to $3.2 billion to 12 companies — including SpaceX, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman — to develop space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense architecture.
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Pentagon clears 8 AI firms — including Reflection AI and Oracle — to deploy on classified IL6 and IL7 networks
May 1, 2026 announcement covers AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection AI, and Oracle. CTO Emil Michael: 'It's irresponsible to be reliant on any one partner.' Anthropic notably absent.
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Space Force FY26 launches: SpaceX gets 5 missions ($714M), ULA gets 2 ($428M)
Second-round FY2026 National Security Space Launch assignments under Phase 3 Lane 2 — SpaceX captures the majority, ULA wins GPS IIIF and a classified NRO payload. FY27-FY32 launch windows.
