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SpaceNews.com • Sandra Erwin

Space Force awards SpaceX $1.6B for 18 Falcon 9 missions under NSSL Phase 3 to deploy sensing and targeting satellites

The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX two task orders worth $1.6 billion to launch 18 Falcon 9 missions through 2027 for Pentagon satellite constellations focused on detecting and targeting airborne objects. The award is the largest publicly announced batch of missions yet under National Security Space Launch Phase 3.

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2026-07-29T14:47:11.389180-07:00
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Space.com • Monisha Ravisetti

'It's going to do things that currently are impossible': The Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is ready to launch Aug. 30

By Space.com: Roman's month of Milky Way observations would take Hubble about a century to complete.

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2026-07-29T15:50:05.343540-07:00
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Bloomberg • Loren Grush

SpaceX Starship Heat Shield Can’t Support Rapid Flights, Experts Say

By Bloomberg: The heat shield that protects SpaceX’s Starship vehicle as it plummets back to Earth may prove to be a substantial roadblock to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s path to designing a rapidly reusable rocket, according to three former NASA researchers and experts in the field.

2026-07-29T10:47:23.992719-07:00