It is shaping up as one of the great corporate brawls in the aerospace world: snappy and feisty and hungry newcomer, SpaceX, versus the titan of heavy launch, the near-perfect expression of big corporatism, the Boeing-Lockheed Martin United Launch Alliance.
The focus of their competition is obscure to most Americans: the purchase by the Air Force of 36 core boosters for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program to launch large satellite payloads into geosynchronous orbit.
But SpaceX really wants some of that business and is furiously working the halls of justice and Congress, the offices of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies like the National Reconnaissance Office, builder and operator of the nation’s spy satellites.
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