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Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer at SpaceX and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, said the company sees the U.S. Army as a potential client for its Starship space vehicle and Starlink satellite constellation, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential nine-year, $986M contract to eight companies for space launch mission support to the Department of Defense and other government agencies as part of Orbital Services Program-4.

NASA has awarded 14 companies contracts worth approximately $43.2M combined to develop technologies for the space agency’s lunar and Mars exploration programs.

A Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) space plane has recorded nearly 719 days in orbit since the U.S. Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft in September 2017 aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from Space Coast in Florida, the Space website reported Monday.

NASA has selected 13 companies that will work with the space agency’s centers to further develop space technologies for use in future lunar and Mars exploration missions.

SpaceX conducted a free flight of its Starhopper prototype launch vehicle following a brief attempt a day earlier at the company’s south Texas-based facility, SpaceNews reported Friday.

SpaceX has received a contract to help NASA launch an observatory designed to help scientists discover astronomical details in space. NASA said Tuesday it estimates the cost of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, which is scheduled for an April 2021 launch, will reach $50.3M.

SpaceX has launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on a mission to help the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center deliver 24 satellites for the Department of Defense and other government customers into space, TechCrunch reported Tuesday.

NASA has awarded eight U.S. firms a total of $4M to investigate concepts that will aid existing and future space transmission systems. The goal of their five-month research period is to gain data that will assist near-Earth missions that are scheduled to begin in the mid-2020s. The agency said Thursday …

With only five days left to vote, the race for first place in the Wash100 rankings remains white-hot as the finish line approaches on April 30th. David Wajsgras of Raytheon took first place from Tiffanny Gates of Novetta, Steve Harris of Dell EMC Federal and Teresa Carlson of Amazon Web …