- Space X will get 28 missions worth about $ 5.9 billion
- ULA will receive 19 missions worth about $ 5.4 billion
- Blue Origin will receive about seven missions
Which is equivalent to 60-40 divisions between Space X and ULA for most missions. On the way to competition, military officials allocated seven additional missions with the third provider to launch, allowing a new player to step into the market. If one of them gets in trouble, the space force reserves the right to re -establish a mission mission.
The Pentagon confirmed that an unknown fourth company also made a proposal, but was not selected for Phase 3.
About a million, the contract with Space X is an average of $ 212 million per launch. For ULA, it is $ 282 million, and Blue Origin is priced at 1 341 million. But carefully take these numbers. The contracts include many bells and whistles, which costs higher than they can pay.
According to the Pentagon, contracts provide “launch services, mission unique services, mission acceleration, immediate reaction/irregularities resolution, special studies, launch service support, fleet monitoring, and early integration study/mission analysis.”
Basically, Space Force Schedule is paying a premium to all three launch providers for access to data from each company’s rocket flight, in addition to other things.
New Glenn landed on his first flight.
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“Winning 60 % of the mission may feel fervor, but the fact is that Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Space X, Elon Musk,” is currently another 40 %! “ posted on x. “I hope they will succeed, but they are not there right now.”
This is true if you look at the flight rate of each company. Space X has launched Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy rockets in the last 365 days. These are the ones that will use the flight’s rocket SPS XSpace Force missions.