Space Systems Command Awards 8 National Security Launch Services Task Orders to ULA, SpaceX

Space Methods Command has issued 5 launch service job orders to United Launch Alliance and another a few to SpaceX underneath the National Safety Space Launch Period 2 agreement that the U.S. Place Power awarded in August 2020.

ULA, a joint undertaking of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will use its Vulcan Centaur rocket to provide start products and services for GPS III-7, Wideband World-wide SatCom-11, USSF-23, USSF-43 and USSF-16 missions.

SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 launch car to help 3 missions: USSF-124, USSF-62 and a Place Enhancement Agency mission in assistance of the Tranche 1 Transportation Layer.

The command claimed USSF-23, USSF-16 and USSF-43 are classified missions that will start from the japanese array aboard ULA’s Vulcan Centaur motor vehicles.

The WGS-11 mission is predicted to access a geosynchronous transfer orbit on its start from the eastern vary atop the ULA rocket, while the GPS III-7 mission is a single of the 10 GPS III missions that is anticipated to attain medium Earth transfer orbit the moment it lifts off from a Vulcan Centaur auto.

The USSF-124 mission will acquire off from the jap vary aboard a Falcon 9 to achieve small-Earth orbit, although the USSF-62 mission features the initially Temperature Process Adhere to-on satellite that will raise off from the western selection atop the SpaceX-built rocket.

Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy, SSC method executive officer, confident entry to area, claimed the issuance of the job orders signifies the Place Force’s crucial position in sending house abilities into orbit to address emerging threats.

“We launch the nation’s ‘eyes and ears,’ protected communications, GPS, and Room Recognition that supply our warfighters and nationwide choice-makers with the crucial details they need to have to safeguard our nation and allies,” Purdy additional.

The command expects the missions to launch in the future two several years.