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>>12444965
SpaceX was in the right place at the right time to get gibs.

Believe it or not i think SpaceX is viewed as a very important asset to the spookier parts of the US government.
Especially now with the potential capabilities of starship and the implication for opening up space to military and economic competition.

Military to launch a cislunar satellite in Q4 2022
>the Defense Deep Space Sentinel (D2S2) is designed “to demonstrate...a variety of deep space missions, including domain awareness, rendezvous/proximity operations, space servicing, space object removal and recovery, and other applications in defensive space operations
>“The D2S2 will...travel from GEO to several different lunar orbit regimes, including Earth-Moon Lagrangian points, halo orbits, and the associated modeling for environmental and orbital dynamics in these regimes”
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/11/space-force-afrl-to-demo-mobile-lunar-spy-sat/