{"id":172970,"date":"2023-09-28T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-musk-wins-us-space-force-contract-for-starshield"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:24:43","slug":"elon-musk-wins-us-space-force-contract-for-starshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-musk-wins-us-space-force-contract-for-starshield","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wins US Space Force Contract for Starshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wins-us-space-force-contract-for-starshield2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has received its first contract from the US Space Force to provide customized satellite communications for the military under the company\u2019s new Starshield program, extending the provocative billionaire\u2019s role as a defense contractor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z: US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Space Exploration Technologies Corp.<\/a> is competing with 15 companies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/VSAT: US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Viasat Inc.<\/a>, for $900 million in work orders through 2028 under the Space Force\u2019s new \u201cProliferated Low Earth Orbit\u201d contracts program, which is tapping into communications services of satellites orbiting from 100 miles to 1,000 miles (160 kilometers to 1,600 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Starshield service will be provided over SpaceX\u2019s existing constellation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-06-24\/why-billionaires-are-flinging-satellites-into-leo-quicktake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Starlink communications satellites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has received its first contract from the US Space Force to provide customized satellite communications for the military under the company\u2019s new Starshield program, extending the provocative billionaire\u2019s role as a defense contractor. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is competing with 15 companies, including Viasat Inc., for $900 million in work orders through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172970","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=172970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}