SpaceX Wins $130 Million Contract to Launch Falcon Heavy Rocket

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Feb. 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Space X, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, has been awarded a massive $130 million firm-fixed-price contract to send a classified Air Force satellite into space on its Falcon Heavy rocket.

According to the Los Angeles Air Force Base, the satellite dubbed the AFSPC-52 is “projected to launch in late fiscal year 2020.”