{"id":111012,"date":"2020-08-07T19:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-and-ula-win-billions-in-pentagon-rocket-contracts-beating-out-blue-origin-northrop-grumman"},"modified":"2020-08-07T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:25:28","slug":"spacex-and-ula-win-billions-in-pentagon-rocket-contracts-beating-out-blue-origin-northrop-grumman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-and-ula-win-billions-in-pentagon-rocket-contracts-beating-out-blue-origin-northrop-grumman","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX and ULA win billions in Pentagon rocket contracts, beating out Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-and-ula-win-billions-in-pentagon-rocket-contracts-beating-out-blue-origin-northrop-grumman2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force on Friday awarded rocket builders United Launch Alliance and SpaceX contracts worth billions to launch national security missions for five years starting in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The awards represent the second phase of the military\u2019s National Security Space Launch program, which is organized by the Air Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, California. Four companies \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100987750\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> SpaceX, ULA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=NOC\">Northrop Grumman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos\u2019<\/a> Blue Origin \u2014 bid for the contracts, with the military set to spend about $1 billion per year on launches.<\/p>\n<p>The NSSL awards represent nearly three dozen launches, scheduled between 2022 and 2026. ULA won 60% of the launches, and SpaceX won the remaining 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force on Friday awarded rocket builders United Launch Alliance and SpaceX contracts worth billions to launch national security missions for five years starting in 2022. The awards represent the second phase of the military\u2019s National Security Space Launch program, which is organized by the Air Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}