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Air Force Taps Eight Companies to Compete for Launch Services Worth $986 Million

Air Force Taps Eight Companies to Compete for Launch Services Worth $986 Million
SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket, and passenger Arabsat-6A, on April 11. (SpaceX0

The Air Force awarded eight companies the chance to compete for up to $986 million in launch services as part of the the Orbital Service Program (OSP)-4 effort to rapidly launch small- to medium-sized payloads into space. The companies include Space X; Xbow Launch Systems, Inc.; Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems [NOC]; Firefly Aerospace; United Launch Alliance – a joint launch venture between Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT]; Aevum Inc.; Vox Space; and Rocket Lab. Nine offers were received, according…

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