Sentence examples for launch contracts from inspiring English sources

SpaceX has three launch contracts so far.

Customers no longer sign launch contracts years in advance.

"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.

"If it didn't have the International Space Station and commercial satellite launch contracts, that industry would collapse," Mr. Vick said.

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.

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

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.

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.

One of the next big steps for Astrobotic will be to secure a verified launch contract.