{"id":113986,"date":"2020-10-07T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-pentagon-commissioned-spacex-to-build-missile-tracking-satellites"},"modified":"2020-10-07T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:22:18","slug":"the-pentagon-commissioned-spacex-to-build-missile-tracking-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-pentagon-commissioned-spacex-to-build-missile-tracking-satellites","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon Commissioned SpaceX to Build Missile-Tracking Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-pentagon-commissioned-spacex-to-build-missile-tracking-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military\u2019s #Space Development Agency (SDA) to manufacture four new satellites that the Pentagon will use to detect and track missiles from space.<\/p>\n<p>The $149 million contract is for four satellites, according to Reuters, which are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2022. The actual #missile-tracking sensors will be developed by a separate subcontractor and attached to the #satellites later, but the military is hoping to piggyback on SpaceX\u2019s recent success in ramping up satellite production for its #Starlink network.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time SpaceX is building satellites for the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military\u2019s #Space Development Agency (SDA) to manufacture four new satellites that the Pentagon will use to detect and track missiles from space. The $149 million contract is for four satellites, according to Reuters, which are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2022. The actual #missile-tracking sensors will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113986","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\/113986","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}