Commercial Space Companies to Perform Launch Range Upgrades Written 4 June 2025
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft for Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the ISS lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 18, 2024. | Credit: Chris Swanson, NASA; Wikipedia; Public Domain
Space News reports, “The U.S. Space Force awarded Jacobs Technology a contract worth up to $4 billion over 10 years to provide engineering and technical services at the nation’s primary space launch ranges, as the military seeks to modernize aging infrastructure and boost capacity amid a surge in commercial space activity. The Space Systems Command selected the Tullahoma, Tennessee-based contractor on May 31 for the so-called ‘Space Force Range Contract,’ which covers maintenance, sustainment, systems engineering and integration services for the Eastern and Western ranges until 2035.”
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