SpaceX wins $70 million Space Force contract for Starshield military satellites

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SpaceX wins $70 million Space Force contract for Starshield military satellites
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Brett is curious about emerging technologies, alternative launch concepts, anti-satellite technologies and uncrewed aircraft systems. Brett's work has appeared on Scientific American, The War Zone, Popular Science, the History Channel, Science Discovery and more. Brett has English degrees from Clemson University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In his free time, Brett enjoys skywatching throughout the dark skies of the Appalachian mountains.

"But most sources say this small $70M contract is for using exiting Starlinks for comms to support SF/DoD ... there were also similar small award to others in the announcement.

So this is not about the proposed new DoD defined Starsheild satellites. So I think the title is wrong and this is not about building Starshield sats yet, but perhaps the contract will allow SX to set up a Starshield office and processing center that will use Starlink to test out .

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