Musk’s SpaceX Vies for Military Satellite Launches as Defense Giants Reset
- Boeing-Lockheed team also may bid again for Pentagon contracts
- U.S. Air Force plans to make the next award by September 2024
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Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is expected once again to vie against a joint venture of defense giants Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. for shares of at least 39 U.S. military and intelligence satellite launches in fiscal years 2025 through 2027.
Other competitors may also emerge for the third phase of the national security space launch program, which is laid out in new Air Force budget projections. Northrop Grumman Corp. and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin LLC bid unsuccessfully in the previous phase so they may try again.