Musk's SpaceX to Launch Top Secret Spy Satellites for US Gov: Report

They save the most humorous bit 'till the end:

> The United Launch Alliance, a Boeing and Lockheed-Martin joint venture, is still awaiting similar approval [to launch top secret spy satellites] from the Space Force for its Vulcan rocket with engines made by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, per Bloomberg's report.

One wonders how difficult & uncertain approval can really be, when the only (ongoing) competitor to your "3 of 3 launch success record" rocket is a never-flown rocket built around a never-delivered rocket engine.

Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/IXrBr

I'm sure Musk will blabber about the secret payload on Twitter during his next wine and Ambien bender

People are not on board with your statement. I don’t see a lot of entrepreneurs doing interesting things and I don’t want the few that do taken down. I’m not even white and I think I’m going to continue to be on team Elon until he starts becoming borderline nazi or something.

I don't think there are many launch options at all.

Even Elon competitors had to book SpaceX launches.

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