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Pentagon awards SpaceX over $159 Million in ‘Competitive’ Space Launch Contract

March 13, 2021
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by Evan Craighead, Published by SpaceDaily, 12 March 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - Boeing and Lockheed Martin's United Launch Alliance (ULA) was also awarded more than $224 million by the Pentagon to launch United States Space Force (USSF) missions USSF-112 and USSF-87 from Centennial, Colorado and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,

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Space Force issues $385 million in launch orders to SpaceX and ULA

March 10, 2021
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by Nathan Strout, published by C4ISRNET, 10 March 2021 WASHINGTON — The Space Force awarded four launch missions worth $385 million to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, bringing the number of missions assigned under its heavy-lift launch contracts to seven. Under the task orders issued March 9, ULA and SpaceX

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ULA, SpaceX split military launch contract awards

March 10, 2021
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by Stephen Clark, Published by Spaceflight Now, 10 March 2021 The U.S. Space Force announced Tuesday that it awarded $384 million in contracts to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, giving each company two missions to launch military satellites in 2023. United Launch Alliance won task orders for the USSF-112 and

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NZ rocket launches may breach nuclear-free laws, say peace groups

March 9, 2021
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by Ollie Neas, Published by The Spinoff, 9 March 2021 Rocket Lab launches of satellites honing US military targeting capabilities have been criticised by the Peace Foundation, which is calling on the PM to step in. Peace groups are calling on the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to stop the launch

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Biak Island, in Papua province, Indonesia, has been offered to Elon Musk as a site for a SpaceX launchpad. Photograph: imageBroker/Alamy

Anger after Indonesia offers Elon Musk Papuan island for SpaceX launchpad

March 9, 2021
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By Rory James, Published in the Guardian, 9 March 2021 Biak island residents say SpaceX launchpad would devastate island’s ecology and displace people from their homes Papuans whose island has been offered up as a potential launch site for Elon Musk’s SpaceX project have told the billionaire Tesla chief his

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SpaceX: more risks, better rockets?

March 5, 2021
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By Lucie Aubourg, Published in Space Daily, 5 March 2021 Washington (AFP) - A prototype of SpaceX's unmanned rocket Starship exploded on Wednesday, the third time a test flight ended in flames. The mishaps may seem like disasters but experts say these incidents are part of the spaceship's development, and

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Nuclear Rockets and “Synergies” between NASA and Military

February 17, 2021
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By Karl Grossman, Published in Free Press, 17 February 2021 A report advocating rocket propulsion by nuclear power for U.S. missions to Mars, written by a committee packed with individuals deeply involved in nuclear power, was issued last week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The 104-page

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Lockheed Martin selects ABL Space Systems for UK launch

February 7, 2021
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By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews 7 February, 2021 WASHINGTON — ABL Space Systems will conduct a launch for Lockheed Martin from a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands, fulfilling an agreement with the British government announced in 2018. Lockheed said Feb. 7 that ABL will perform a launch of

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