TESLARATI by Evelyn Arevalo August 20, 2021
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Friday, August 20, that SpaceX received an additional $19 million ($19,226,072) dollars as part of a “bilateral modification” to cover costs of a previously awarded U.S Space Force 'USSF-52' (AFSPC 52) contract under the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program. “This modification incorporates a change in the contract requirements,” they wrote, without further details due to national security. All that is publicly known is that SpaceX will launch a classified payload(s) for the U.S. Space Force atop a powerful Falcon Heavy rocket sometime next year. When the contract was first awarded in 2018, it was worth $130 million, the new contract modification brings the contract's value total to over $149 million ($149,226,072). Work related to this national security mission will be performed in “Hawthorne, California; Kennedy Space Center, Florida; and McGregor, Texas, and is expected to be completed by April 14, 2022,” the DoD award announcement states.
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