{"id":113914,"date":"2020-10-05T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-agency-contracts-to-build-missile-warning-satellites"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:22:28","slug":"spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-agency-contracts-to-build-missile-warning-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-agency-contracts-to-build-missile-warning-satellites","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, L3Harris win Space Development Agency contracts to build missile-warning satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-agency-contracts-to-build-missile-warning-satellites3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is developing a new satellite bus for the Space Development Agency based on the Starlink design.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX a $149 million contract and L3Harris a $193.5 million contract to each build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts announced Oct. 5 are for the first eight satellites of a potentially much larger Space Development Agency constellation of sensor satellites known as Tracking Layer Tranche 0. This is SpaceX\u2019s first military contract to produce satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is developing a new satellite bus for the Space Development Agency based on the Starlink design. WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX a $149 million contract and L3Harris a $193.5 million contract to each build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles. The contracts announced Oct. 5 are for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113914","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=113914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}