IT House reported on Jan. 20 that SpaceNews reported that SpaceX has now been awarded a five-year, $102 million rocket freight contract to demonstrate the technology and capabilities to transport military supplies and provide humanitarian assistance with heavy rockets.
The Rocket Freight Project is a new program led by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to examine the utility of using large commercial rockets to perform U.S. Department of Defense's global logistics and transportation missions.
Rocket Cargo Program Manager Greg Spanjers said in a statement that the contract formalizes the partnership to help "determine what the rocket can achieve when used for cargo transportation, and what is the true capacity, speed and cost?" and the cost of integrating the system".
Greg Spanjers said: "The Department of Defense is very interested in the ability to deliver goods anywhere on the planet to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief"
The contract is not allegedly for any of SpaceX's launch vehicles. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory will use SpaceX's commercial orbit-entry launches and landings to collect critical data on environmental characteristics and performance. SpaceX will offer a cargo hold design that can be quickly loaded and unloaded, and the U.S. Air Force will explore the use of multimodal containers that are compatible with other transportation delivery modes.
IT House learned that SpaceX is a private space manufacturer and space transportation company in the United States, founded by Elon Musk in June 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
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