$2.29B SpaceX Contract Wires US Weapons From Orbit

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SpaceX won $2.29B to build the Space Force’s orbital targeting backbone, pushing Starlink tech deeper into combat systems.

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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