JAKARTA - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has once again got a deal. Together with the United States military (US), Musk will build a rocket capable of delivering weapons around the world in one hour.
Reported by the Slashgear page, Monday, October 12, not only weapons, the rocket can also be filled with other loads that are used as supplies during the war. Later the rocket could launch at a speed of 7500 miles per hour and was capable of carrying 80 metric tons of cargo into orbit.
Under the contract, SpaceX will work with other military contracting companies, including the Exploration Architecture Corporation to participate in the development of this rocket.
The head of the US Transportation Command, General Stephen Lyons, welcomed the cargo rocket project which will start to be realized in 2021. Later the US military made it possible to deliver cargo in large loads in a shorter time.
In comparison, the Globemaster C-17 transport aircraft has a maximum speed of 590mph, but takes 15 hours to make the same journey. Later, the rocket made by SpaceX and the US military has a similar purpose with a payload equivalent to the C-17 in a short time.
"SpaceX is moving very, very fast in this area. Think about moving the equivalent of a C-17 payload anywhere in the world in less than an hour," said Lyons.
Musk noted that this gun-carrying rocket must be stronger than the Falcon 9, which can only carry 22 metric tons of cargo.
This week is claimed to be lucky for SpaceX, because a few days ago, the company was awarded a contract worth 149 million US dollars under which they will build a missile tracking satellite for the Pentagon.
From the deal, SpaceX will build four satellites equipped with wide-angle infrared missile tracking sensors at its assembly plant in Washington, where the company is building the satellite for the Internet project Starlink.
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