Musk’s SpaceX Expands Spy Satellites 2 Trillion Won Contract With U.S. Government

The media said it Elon Musk’s SpaceX expands spy satellites, 2 trillion won contract with U.S. government” learned this information from five sources familiar with the matter. These sources said that Space said it was building a corresponding satellite network. Previously, the US daily Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) also reported that SpaceX signed a confidential contract worth $1.8 billion with the US government in 2021, based on documents it obtained last month.

However, this newspaper did not provide specific information about the parties to the contract or the contents of the contract. Reuters sources explained that the successful deployment of the spy satellite network promoted by NRO and SpaceX will greatly increase the ability of the US government and military to quickly discover and respond to potential targets almost anywhere in the world.

This network consists of large satellites equipped with image processing sensors and numerous relay satellites, and the relay satellites will build a system to transmit various information and image data through a network using inter-satellite lasers, Reuters reported. “Nobody will be able to hide,” one source said of the system’s potential capabilities. Three sources said more than a dozen prototype satellites have been launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 since 2020, but Reuters was unable to confirm when the new satellite network would be online and operational.

It is known that Space Space NRO , which is in charge of America’s reconnaissance satellites, is one of the core intelligence agencies that was kept secret until its existence was revealed to the public in 1992, and is an agency under the U.S. Department of Defense. NRO announced in a statement in April last year that it would expand the number of reconnaissance satellites to four times the existing level by 2033. However, an NRO spokesperson declined to comment on the contract with SpaceX,

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