New South Bay Rocket Contract
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), the Hawthorne-based developer of low-cost rockets, said Monday that it won a contract from the Department of Defense for a June launch.
The DoD has not announced the payload yet.
The contact is part of the DoD's Jumpstart mission, which aims to establish a way to streamline contracting and execution of missions to make the process much quicker from beginning to end.
The June launch will occur from the SpaceX launch complex in the Central Pacific Marshall Islands’ Kwajalein Atoll. The launch will use SpaceX's smallest rocket, the Falcon 1.