Sentence examples for launch contract from inspiring English sources

An Israeli company, SpaceIL, has submitted a signed launch contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to the competition's organisers.

The deal is the first large launch contract for the startup, which plans to manufacture its satellites with 3D printing.

The suspension was imposed after the Air Force found that Boeing had violated federal law by stealing more than 25,000 documents from the Lockheed Martin Corporation as the two companies competed for a rocket launch contract in 1998.

ULA did not compete for the GPS launch contract, citing accounting issues, implications of trade sanctions limiting imports of its rockets' Russian-made engines and, according to a former ULA vice-president, SpaceX's cut-rate pricing.

But SpaceIL's launch contract changes that, and places pressure on the other teams, who must now present their own launch contracts by the end of 2016 in order to remain in the race.

Moon Express signed its own launch contract on 30 September with a New Zealand start-up company called Rocket Lab, but has yet to submit the contract to the X-Prize organisers for verification.

SpaceX has three launch contracts so far.

Customers no longer sign launch contracts years in advance.

This forthcoming solicitation for launch contracts in the mid-2020s, however, may effectively end that effort.

"From now on," Mr. Nisbet said, "both contractors will split 50-50 future launch contracts".

ULA did not immediately respond to a request for comment about bidding on future launch contracts.