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April 24, 2018 By AMK

Military will award $10 million to the company that can launch satellites on short notice

U.S. military leaders are bullish about small satellites as tools to spy on adversaries and provide secure communications, but there’s just one problem: There isn’t a good way to get them into space, on demand.

Inspired by NASA’s partnerships with rocket makers like SpaceX, the Pentagon is turning to private industry, as half a dozen companies, most backed by venture capitalists, are working to launch small satellites more cheaply than ever to meet the demands of a growing number of small-satellite startups.

“There’s already a lot of commercial money going into development for these boosters,” Todd Master, a program manager at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency told Quartz at the Space Symposium, a conference bringing together space companies and government officials in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “But nobody is asking them to be much more responsive. Our discussions with them are: Could you go faster? Could you go from anywhere? And they’re like, ‘Yeah, but nobody is asking us to do that.’”

Keep reading this article at: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/04/us-military-will-award-10-million-company-can-launch-satellites-short-notice/147588

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DARPA, DoD, NASA, Pentagon, satellite, SpaceX

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