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| Subject: SpaceX Sues to Break Spy Satellite Launch Monopoly Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:46 pm | |
| Elon Musk has declared war on the United Launch Alliance (ULA). Today at a press conference in Washington D.C., the entrepreneur declared that his company SpaceX is filing suit in the Court of Federal Claims to protest the monopoly that currently conducts Air Force and spy agency satellite launches. SpaceX wants to start competing with the ULA for launch contracts as soon as this year (though there are only 14 opportunities for that open competition).
"This is not SpaceX saying these launches should be awarded to us," Musk said. "If we compete and lose, that's fine. But why are they not even competed? This is not right."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/spacex-sues-to-break-spy-satellite-launch-monopoly-16731578?click=pm_news |
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