Elon Musk s SpaceX wins two $159M contracts from the US Pentagon yourstory.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yourstory.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Department of Defense announced on Tuesday it will be awarding Elon Musk
“Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, California, has been awarded two individual firm-fixed-price task orders totaling $159,721,445 under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
According to the statement, work will take place in Hawthorne, Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The work is expected to be done by the end of 2023.
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Colorado-based aerospace company United Launch Alliance (ULA) has also been awarded a contract costing more than $224 million. The company, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has a long history of working with the Defense Department.
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Tesla Quietly Plugs Giant Battery into the Texas Energy Grid
Gambit Energy Storage LLC, a Tesla subsidiary, is quietly building a more than 100 megawatt energy storage project in Angleton, Texas. A battery that size could power about 20,000 homes on a hot summer day. by Dana Hull and Naureen Malik, Bloomberg News / March 9, 2021 A Tesla battery bank in Ontario, Calif. A Tesla subsidiary registered as Gambit Energy Storage LLC is quietly building a more than 100 megawatt energy storage project in Angleton, Texas. (Ivan Penn/Los Angeles Times/TNS) TNS
(TNS) Elon Musk is getting into the Texas power market, with previously unrevealed construction of a gigantic battery connected to an ailing electric grid that nearly collapsed last month. The move marks Tesla Inc.’s first major foray into the epicenter of the U.S. energy economy.
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Elon Musk decided to file an FCC request to expand SpaceX s Starlink satellite internet to various vehicles such as planes, trucks, RVs, and ships. However, he said that his internet service wouldn t be available on any Tesla electric car. But why?
(Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the SAOCOM 1A and ITASAT 1 satellites, as seen during a long exposure on October 7, 2018 near Santa Barbara, California. After launching the satellites, the Falcon 9 rocket successfully returned to land on solid ground near the launch site rather than at sea. The satellites will become part of a six-satellite constellation that will work in tandem with an Italian constellation known as COSMO-SkyMed.