The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30B in rocket launches

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/the-space-force-is-now-seeking-to-buy-up-to-30-billion-in-rocket-launches/

by rbanffy • 2 days ago

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conartist62• 2 days ago

once space is a battlefield, won't that largely salt the earth for economic uses? I watched the movie Gravity, so I know that it wouldn't take that much for however many trillion dollars of equipment is up there to be magically transmuted into an orbiting debris cloud

JumpCrisscross3• 1 day ago

I watched the movie Gravity

In case you're being serious, Gravity is a notoriously unrealistic illustration of orbital debris.

conartist62• 1 day ago

Is it unrealistic in depicting the idea that debris could cause a cascade which would create more debris?

generj• 1 day ago

Seems premature when the increase in the Space Force budget hasn’t happened yet.

netsharc• 1 day ago

No problem, the apparatchik will rubber stamp it!

Gotta keep that trillion dollar Ponzi scheme floating!

chung8123• 1 day ago

With this much money involved, can the US just build up NASA to do launches? The money of the people should be put towards things owned by the people. Using the rural internet money to make a starlink alternative would be great and I am sure the military would like in on that as well. That is hundreds of billions that could be spent.

whimsicalism• 1 day ago

extremely difficult for modern government to overcome the incentive problems when building in house

rbanffy2• 4 hours ago

Modern, as in “serving campaign donors rather than their voters”.

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30B in rocket launches

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