{"id":151959,"date":"2022-12-06T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spacex-rolls-out-new-business-line-focused-on-military-satellite-services"},"modified":"2022-12-06T01:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T07:22:19","slug":"spacex-rolls-out-new-business-line-focused-on-military-satellite-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spacex-rolls-out-new-business-line-focused-on-military-satellite-services","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rolls out new business line focused on military satellite services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-rolls-out-new-business-line-focused-on-military-satellite-services2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX revealed a new business segment called Starshield aimed at U.S. national security government agencies. \u201cWhile Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas: Earth observation, communications and hosted payloads,\u201d the company said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big deal as SpaceX is currently burning through $2 billion\/year as it works to develop Starlink and Starship. So SpaceX wouldn\u2019t mind some extra cash!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX on Dec. 2 revealed a new business segment called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/starshield\/\">Starshield<\/a> aimed at U.S. national security government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>This sector of SpaceX intends to leverage the Starlink internet constellation in low Earth orbit to develop products and services \u2014 including secure communications, remote sensing and space surveillance payloads \u2014 that are in growing demand by U.S. defense and intelligence organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas: Earth observation, communications and hosted payloads,\u201d the company said on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX revealed a new business segment called Starshield aimed at U.S. national security government agencies. \u201cWhile Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas: Earth observation, communications and hosted payloads,\u201d the company said on its website. This is a big deal as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1490,418,9,2028,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151959","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}