SpaceX Keeps U.S. Air Force's Confidence After Satellite's Loss
- No need to change SpaceX’s certification, commander says
- Air Force now evaluating biggest launch contract to date
SpaceX Satellite May Be Lost
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The U.S. Air Force command that certified Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. for military missions says it remains confident in the company’s capabilities despite the disappearance this month of a classified satellite it launched.
“Based on the data available, our team did not identify any information that would change SpaceX’s Falcon 9 certification status” after “a preliminary review of telemetry that was available to us from” the Jan. 7 launch, Lieutenant General John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, said in a statement to Bloomberg News.