SpaceX won $2.29B to build the Space Force’s orbital targeting backbone, pushing Starlink tech deeper into combat systems.
Key takeaways
- What happens when SpaceX is no longer just launching military satellites, but building the orbital data backbone that connects US sensors to shooters?
- The US Space Force has confirmed a $2.29 billion firm-fixed-price contract with SpaceX for the Space Data Network Backbone, a low-Earth orbit communication...
- > “We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both,” said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Fry, SDN Backbone system program manager.
- That line captures the whole bet. The Pentagon wants a large, distributed satellite network that can move data fast enough to matter in combat. The hard part is not on...
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