Today, SpaceX took a short break from Starlink flights and launched a national security mission. Who made these satellites? SpaceX with some sensors from Northrop Grumman. It is amazing how many of the satellites that SpaceX launches are made by SpaceX!
It would be hard to make reusable rockets work if you didn’t have a ton of payloads to launch.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with an undisclosed number of satellites on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The spacecraft, which are believed to be Starshield satellites, make up the third batch of what the NRO calls its “proliferated architecture.”