SpaceX awarded contract to help develop US missile-tracking satellite network

SpaceXhas secured a contract valued at just shy of $150 million by the U.S. Space Development Agency, a branch of the U.S. military that is tasked with building out America’s space-based defense capabilities. The contract covers creation and delivery of “space vehicles,” aka actual satellites, that will form a constellation offering global coverage of advance missile warning and tracking.
Alongside SpaceX, the SDA also granted a contract for the same capabilities valued at near