hotair.com By DAVID STROM
The answer(s) to the title question are probably fairly obvious. Elon Musk is constructing hundreds of spy satellites for the United States for the money and because his company, SpaceX, now has a vast amount of experience in building satellites. SpaceX Starshield was awarded a $1.8 billion contract to do this in 2021. They’ve already successfully built and launched literally thousands of satellites. They’ve put so many into orbit that astronomers are complaining that he’s messing up their long-exposure photographs. Perhaps the real question we should be asking is why we all know about it. Isn’t that the sort of thing that you’d like to keep secret from the Russians and the Chinese? (NY Post)
SpaceX is developing a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract between billionaire Elon Muskâs space company and a U.S. intelligence agency, according to a report.
The network is being built through SpaceXâs Starshield business unit as part of a $1.8 billion contract the company inked in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office, which manages spy satellites, five sources told Reuters.
The new spy system, which would feature hundreds of satellites with Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits, would provide the United States the most persistent, pervasive and rapid coverage of activities on Earth.
As it turns out, SpaceX has already launched up to a dozen of the Starshield spy satellites. That was part of a smaller, initial contract intended to provide the proof of concept required to gain the big contract that followed. It’s not clear to me why that knowledge was made public either. Like it or not, we’re engaged in a type of modern space race with both Russia and China. This seems like the kind of data you’d want to keep close to the vest.
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