Musk’s SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile tracking satellites

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a $149 million (£114.8 million) contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, in the company’s first government contract to build satellites.

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