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It seems that $5.6 billion was not enough. That was the news from the US Space Force on Friday, when military officials announced that they are tripling the amount of the National Security Space Launch contract to $17 billion.
Space Force’s expansion National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 The deal comes as the Pentagon signals a rise in demand for military satellites. The NSSL program is designed to allow the Space Systems Command, which oversees the Space Force’s launch program, to select from a pool of launch partners of any type to deliver military satellites into orbit.
The NSSL program consists of two phases. Lane 1 handles the risk-tolerant operations of the Space Force, such as intermediate launches and test payloads or flights carrying Pentagon satellites. monitoring or data collection. Lane 2 also includes more advanced projects, such as large and expensive government satellites, or radiation-hardened satellites designed to survive a nuclear war.
