SpaceX’s government contracts are at risk around 22 billion dollars (about Rs 1,88,626 crore) and many US space programs can face dramatic changes in the decline in the explosive quarrel of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Thursday.
Disagreement lies in Mask Criticism Trump Tax-cut and spending laws that began last week quickly got out of control. When the President spoke at the Oval Office, Trump entered Kasturi. Then in a series of X posts, Musk launched Barbes in Trump, who threatened to abolish government contracts with Musk’s companies.
Taking the danger seriously, Musk said he would start “decomization” by SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft NASA,
Hours later, however, the musk appeared for the reverse course. In response to a follower on X, Trump and Trump urged to “cool down and a step for a few days,” Musk wrote: “Well advice. Well, we will not decorate the dragon.”
Nevertheless, Musk’s only threatening to pull its dragon spacecraft out of service marks one unprecedented outbreak from one of NASA’s leading commercial partners.
Under the contract, under the contract, the Dragon Capsule agency has been the only American vessel, which is capable of carrying astronauts from the international space station, which makes Musk’s company an important element of the American space program.
The quarrel raised questions that Trump, an often unexpected force that intervened in previous procurement efforts, would go to punish Kasturi, which led Trump’s initiative to reduce the federal government by the last week.
If the President preferred political vengeance and canceled billions of dollars of spacex contracts with NASA and Pentagon, it could slow down the US space progress.
NASA’s press secretary Bethani Stevens refused to comment on SpaceX, but said: “We will continue working with our industry partners to fulfill the President’s objectives in space.”
The quarrel between Musk and Trump broke an extraordinary relationship between an US President and the Titan of the industry, which received some major favor for SpaceX: NASA’s Moon program in a proposed overhala program of Marsha program, a planned effort to create a huge missile defense shield in space, and the name of an Air Force leader which was a contract that was a contract in a contract.
Exclusion of Dragon from service will probably disrupt the ISS program, including dozens of countries under the two decades of international agreement. But it was not clear how soon such a decomination would be. NASA used the Soyuz spacecraft of Russia as a secondary ride for its astronauts for ISS.
SpaceX emergence
Analysts said Spacex had already dominated Republican politics long ago in Republican politics, building a rocket launch and formulating a malignant market share in satellite communications industries that could somewhat adapted it from the division of Musk with Trump.
SpaceX investor Fortuna Investments CEO Justus Parmar said, “It will not be fortunately destroyed, as SpaceX has developed himself in a global powerhouse that dominates most space industry, but there is no question that it will result in the results of important lost revenue and missed contract opportunities as a result.”
Under Trump in recent months, the US space industry and NASA’s 18,000 workforce has been trimmed by trimmed and cut in the proposed budget that will cancel dozens of science programs, while the US space agency persists without a confirmed administrator.
NASA’s Administrator, Musk Ellie and billionaire private astronaut Jered Isaqman’s nominee, with the nominee, showed an early casualt in the crack of Musk, when the White House suddenly removed him from the idea in the weekend, causing the Space Agency to refuse his pick.
Trump on Thursday explained to the dumping Isaacman, saying that he was “completely democrat”, in a clear context of the reports donated to Democrats by Isaacman. Isaacman has donated some Republicans but most of the Democratic candidates to the office according to public records.
Musk’s discovery to send Mars to humans has been an important element of Trump’s space agenda. This effort has threatened to remove resources with NASA’s major effort to send humans back to the moon.
Trump’s budget plan demanded the cancellation of Artemis Moon Missions beyond its third mission, effectively eliminated the high -budget space launch system rockets used for those missions.
But on Thursday, the Late -released Trump’s Bill will restore funding for four and five missions, which provides at least $ 1 billion (about Rs 8,574 crore) annually for SLS through 2029.
Since SpaceX rockets are a less expensive option for SLS, does the Trump administration oppose the changes of the Senate in the coming weeks, indicating the remaining political power of musk.
SpaceX, established in 2002, has won $ 15 billion (about Rs 1,28,621 crore) of NASA contracts for the development of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket and Spacex’s starship, a multipurpose rocket system has taped NASA astronauts in this decade.
The company has also been awarded billions of dollars for launching the majority of the Pentagon’s national security satellites into space, while it creates a large -scale detective satellite constellation in the classroom for an American intelligence agency.
In addition to not being in American interests, former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Gawar said that the cancellation of SpaceX’s contracts would probably not be legal.
But he also said, “An evil CEO threatened the spacecraft to decommit, putting the lives of astronauts at risk, unstable.”
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