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Mysterious Second Bid Adds Twist To First Competed EELV Mission

Pat Host

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

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Mysterious Second Bid Adds Twist To First Competed EELV Mission

SpaceX lands its Falcon 9 on its floating water barge after its April 8 launch. Photo: SpaceX.

A second bid was surprisingly entered into the Air Force’s first launch competition in almost a decade.It was believed that only one company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), would bid for the Global Positioning System III-2 (GPS III-2) mission after incumbent United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced it would not bid on the mission for a variety of reasons. ULA spokeswoman Jessica Rye on Thursday reiterated, once again, that the company did not bid for the GPS III-2 mission.But the Defense…

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