{"id":83904,"date":"2025-07-22T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83904\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:52:13","slug":"golden-dome-blow-trump-may-sideline-musk-from-missile-shield-project-bezos-may-cash-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83904\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dome blow: Trump may sideline Musk from missile shield project; Bezos may cash in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122840472.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Dome blow: Trump may sideline Musk from missile shield project; Bezos may cash in\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> The Trump administration is quietly looking for alternatives to SpaceX for its ambitious Golden Dome missile defence system, weeks after the public rift between the two, according to news agency Reuters.Until recently, Trump&#8217;s former political ally Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX was the top contender to help build the Golden Dome, a missile shield Trump has frequently touted in speeches.According to Wall Street Journal, Trump aides have launched a fresh review of SpaceX\u2019s federal contracts, hoping to find potential overspending or loopholes. But the new review hasn\u2019t yielded much. Most of SpaceX\u2019s existing contracts \u2014 with Nasa and the Pentagon \u2014 were deemed too critical to tamper with.Despite the tensions, the US government remains deeply tied to Musk\u2019s companies. Over the years, SpaceX and Tesla have benefited from billions in public funding and contracts.  Still, Trump\u2019s team is reportedly exploring whether competitors, including Jeff Bezos\u2019 Amazon-backed Project Kuiper, can replace SpaceX in future projects like Golden Dome. Interestingly, Musk himself has said SpaceX isn\u2019t interested in working on the missile shield. In April, he posted on his social media: \u201cSpaceX has not tried to bid for any contract in this regard. Our strong preference would be to stay focused on taking humanity to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is quietly looking for alternatives to SpaceX for its ambitious Golden Dome missile defence system,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[56919,56917,56921,56920,159,783,56918,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-83904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-elon-musk-spacex-contracts","9":"tag-golden-dome-missile-defence-system","10":"tag-jeff-bezos-project-kuiper","11":"tag-nasa-spacex-collaboration","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-trump-spacex-feud","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114898399653516763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}