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Air Force

United Launch Alliance Asks Court To Dismiss SpaceX Lawsuit

Pat Host

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

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United Launch Alliance Asks Court To Dismiss SpaceX Lawsuit

A Falcon 9 rocket.

Defense Department launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) Tuesday moved for a court to permanently dismiss a lawsuit filed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). ULA said in its filing that the Air Force granted SpaceX visibility into its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) procurement, including making available its request for proposals (RFP) for the acquisition and developing a path for new entrants like SpaceX to compete for future missions. But ULA claims SpaceX made no objection to the Air…

Congress

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Budget

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