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The Space Development Agency awarded $193.5 million to L3Harris and $149 million to SpaceX, to build four satellites each to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

The contracts announced on Oct. 5 are for the first eight satellites for a potentially much larger constellation of sensor satellites that the Space Development Agency is calling Tracking Layer Tranche 0.

The awards mark the first time that the U.S. military has announced an order of satellites from SpaceX, which opened a factory in Seattle several years ago to produce thousands of small satellites for its Starlink broadband megaconstellation…

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