{"id":111159,"date":"2020-08-12T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-ula-win-huge-defense-contracts-totaling-more-than-650-million"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:22:18","slug":"spacex-ula-win-huge-defense-contracts-totaling-more-than-650-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/spacex-ula-win-huge-defense-contracts-totaling-more-than-650-million","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, ULA win huge defense contracts totaling more than $650 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-ula-win-huge-defense-contracts-totaling-more-than-650-million2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Space Force\u2019s announcement last week that United Launch Alliance and SpaceX will launch expensive spy satellites and other military payloads brings a long and often fierce battle for government funds to an end \u2014 at least for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> This type of government money \u2014 particularly in light of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 is key for space companies that often work on thin margins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The state of play:<\/strong> ULA was <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"awarded\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/space-force-ula-spacex-contracts-c1bdafae-84e7-48c8-93bd-08b1df7cfe04.html\" data-vars-content-id=\"81758ce1-2dbb-4007-b449-3429ce8c10df\" data-vars-headline=\"SpaceX and ULA pull in huge defense contracts\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/space-force-ula-spacex-contracts-c1bdafae-84e7-48c8-93bd-08b1df7cfe04.html\" target=\"_self\">awarded<\/a> the bulk of the funds \u2014 $337 million \u2014 for two missions due to launch in 2022, with SpaceX winning $316 million for one mission launching that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Force\u2019s announcement last week that United Launch Alliance and SpaceX will launch expensive spy satellites and other military payloads brings a long and often fierce battle for government funds to an end \u2014 at least for now. Why it matters: This type of government money \u2014 particularly in light of the economic downturn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1490,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-government","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111159","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=111159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}