{"id":1010932,"date":"2026-05-30T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010932"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:17:08","slug":"spacex-wins-4-16-billion-us-space-force-contract-for-threat-detection-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/spacex-wins-4-16-billion-us-space-force-contract-for-threat-detection-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX wins $4.16 billion US Space Force contract for threat-detection satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u200bUS. Space Force \u200bsaid on Friday it has awarded Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200bIPO-bound SpaceX a $4.16 billion deal for a satellite program designed to track and target airborne threats. <\/p>\n<p>The Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) is designed as an \u200cinterconnected system-of-systems, \u2060combining space-based \u2060sensors, secure communications links and ground processing to drive closer cooperation across \u200bthe government space industrial base. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s flagship Golden Dome missile defense system has many layers, one of them being a sensing and tracking layer. The satellites would be expected to play a role in tracking missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u200bUS. Space Force \u200bsaid on Friday it has awarded Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200bIPO-bound SpaceX a $4.16 billion deal for a satellite program designed to track and target airborne threats. The Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) is designed as an \u200cinterconnected system-of-systems, \u2060combining space-based \u2060sensors, secure communications links and ground processing to drive closer cooperation across \u200bthe government space industrial base. The Trump administration&#8217;s flagship Golden Dome missile defense system has many layers, one of them being a sensing and tracking layer. The satellites would be expected to play a role in tracking missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010959,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010932\/revisions\/1010959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}