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SpaceX Wins $4.16B Space Force Contract to Detect Airborne Moving Targets

MAY 31, 2026
This is not a UFO story in the sensational sense. It is a capability story. The signal is that the U.S. government is still funding airborne moving-target detection at scale, which matters because the architecture for tracking ambiguous aerial objects is often more revealing than public rhetoric about them.
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