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Upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 blasts off with Canada Goose Online Thaicom canada goose jacket outlet 8 communications satellite on May 27, 2016 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape canada goose Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. 1st stage booster landed safely at sea minutes later. Air Force just got more even intense with the announcement that SpaceX outbid arch rival United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch an cheap canada goose uk advanced military Global Positioning System (GPS III) navigation satellite to orbit in approx. 2 years. Air Force has announced that SpaceX has canada goose outlet black friday won the national security contract to launch a single next generation GPS III satellite to Earth orbit in the first half of 2019. The contract award is valued at $96.5 million.

«SpaceX is proud canada goose uk outlet to have been selected to support this important National Security Space Mission,» Gwynne Shotwell, canada goose outlet toronto factory President COO, told Universe Today in a buy canada goose jacket cheap statement in response to the GPS III award.

The GPS constellation of navigation satellites is vital to both military and civilian users on a 24/7 basis.

«Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $96,500,490 firm fixed price contract for launch services to deliver a GPS III satellite to its intended orbit,» the Air Force announced in a statement.

There could be as many as 15 Air Force launch contracts awarded this year in competitive bidding between ULA and SpaceX.

The upshot is that ULA’s decade long near monopoly on national security launches has now been broken several times in the past year with SpaceX outbidding ULA based on the price of their newer Falcon family of rockets compared to ULA’s long established Atlas and Delta rocket families.

Last year SpaceX won the competition Canada Goose Outlet to launch the first GPS III satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2018 with a bid https://www.londonbc.co.uk of $82.7 million after ULA decided not to enter a bid. Air Force has placed in our company and we look forward to working together towards the successful canada goose outlet new york city launch of another GPS III mission, Shotwell elaborated to Universe Today.

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell meets the media at canada goose factory outlet Launch Complex 39A at canada goose outlet online uk the canada goose outlet in usa Kennedy Space Center on 17 Feb 2017 to discuss a wide range of space launch plans. Credit: Julian Leek

ULA did not bid on the first GPS III contract citing the lack of availability of «any Atlas engines available to bid» and other contract factors as the reason for not submitting cheap canada goose a bid for the 2018 launch based on the request for proposals (RFP) for the global positioning satellite.

The launch price was a deciding factor in the winning bid.

«Each contractor had to prove through their proposal that they could meet the technical, the schedule canada goose outlet and the risk criteria,» said Claire Leon, director of the launch enterprise directorate at the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, during a media briefing.

«SpaceX was able to do that. I wouldn’t say that they were necessarily better. They adequately met our criteria.»

SpaceX has been snatching away numerous launch contracts from ULA other launch providers across the globe with their substantially lower rocket prices. SpaceX has been hiring while other firms including ULA have suffered layoffs.

So in response to competitive pressures from SpaceX, ULA took concrete steps to dramatically cut launch costs and end dependency on the RD 180s when CEO Tory Bruno announced in April 2015 that the company would develop the new all American made Vulcan rocket.

Vulcan is slated for an inaugural liftoff in 2019.

The Air Force expects SpaceX to achieve a rapid turnaround from winning the bid to actually launching the GPS satellite by April 2019.

«Contractor will provide launch vehicle production, mission integration, launch operations, spaceflight worthiness and mission unique activities for a GPS III mission. Work will be performed at Hawthorne, California; Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida; and McGregor, Texas, and is expected to be complete by April 30, 2019,» said the Air Force.

Only SpaceX and ULA bid on the GPS III satellite launch contract.

«This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with two offers received. Canada Goose Coats On Sale Fiscal 2016 space procurement canada goose outlet online funds canada goose outlet uk in the amount of $96,500,490 canada goose outlet nyc are being obligated at the time of award.»

The Air Force canada goose black friday sale opened up military launch contracts to competitive bidding in 2015 after certifying SpaceX as a qualified bidder to launch canada goose uk shop the nation’s most critical and highly valuable national security satellites on their Falcon 9 booster.

Until 2015, ULA had a near sole source contract with the USAF as the only company certified to bid on and launch those most critical national security satellites. New space upstart SpaceX, founded by billionaire CEO Elon Musk, then forced the bidding issue by filing a lawsuit suing the Air Force.

In response to the lost GPS III bid, ULA touted their demonstrated record of 100 percent success launching more than 115 satellites.

«Over the past decade, ULA has provided unmatched reliability with 100 percent mission success and ensured more than 115 satellites were delivered safely to their orbits each and every time. We look forward to continuing to provide the best value launch services to enable our customers’ critical missions.».