Officials hedge SpaceX aircraft-tracking satellite bet with three smaller company contracts

Three more companies will get Space Force money to build satellites that can track aircraft, a move meant to reduce the service’s reliance on SpaceX for the capability.Rocket Lab and STR were awarded firm-fixed-price other-transaction-authority agreements to develop a space-based solution for the military’s airborne moving target indicator mission, or AMTI. A third company was also selected, but officials didn’t name the firm in a press release this week due to “operation