The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30B in rocket launches
rbanffy
19 points
10 comments
July 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
conartist6
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
generj
Seems premature when the increase in the Space Force budget hasn’t happened yet.
chung8123
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.