SpaceX wins $70 million Space Force contract for Starshield military satellites

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SpaceX has won its first contract with the United States Space Force for its new Starshield satellite constellation.

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[perilun]

Perhaps someone can clear this up​

The title is: "SpaceX wins $70 million Space Force contract for Starshield military satellites"​

But most sources say this small $70M contract is for using exiting Starlinks for comms to support SF/DoD ... there were also similar small award to others in the announcement.

So this is not about the proposed new DoD defined Starsheild satellites. So I think the title is wrong and this is not about building Starshield sats yet, but perhaps the contract will allow SX to set up a Starshield office and processing center that will use Starlink to test out (probably in unclassified mode).