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Defense Department May Need To Use SpaceX For Its Next Satellite Launch
• http://www.popsci.comThe key to private space delivery may be terrible geopolitics. SpaceX, the rocket startup from Elon Musk, might soon get to carry its first military payload to space thanks in part to poor relations between the United States and Russia.
SpaceX's main competitor, the United Launch Alliance of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, repurposes old Russian rockets to carry cargo into space.