While some contracts remain under scrutiny, White House and Pentagon officials ultimately concluded most SpaceX deals were critical to national defense and NASA missions, underscoring the company’s dominance in rocket launches and satellite services, the WSJ reported.

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This belief is underscored by the recent award of an $843 million contract to SpaceX for a heavily modified Dragon spacecraft that will be used to deorbit the International Space Station by 2030.