SpaceX's rivals just blew the cover off the rocket company's secretive lawsuit against the US government
Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance all received Air Force contracts in October in response to the government's request for Launch Service Agreement proposals, or LSAs, which are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. SpaceX did not receive an LSA contract. Those awards are at the heart of SpaceX's new lawsuit, and they want to be involved in the proceedings to protect their interests, according to documents filed Tuesday and Wednesday.
And Blue Origin will get $500 million for its New Glenn rocket.The awards, however, do not guarantee that the new rockets will one day win military launch contracts, which are extremely lucrative and coveted in the space industry. SpaceX can already compete for military contracts using its existing Falcon rockets. It won the right to do so after filing a lawsuit against the federal government in 2014, ending ULA's decade-long monopoly on such contract awards.
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