Three more companies will get Space Force money to build satellites that can track aircraft, a move meant to reduce the service’s reliance on SpaceX for the capability. A third company was also selected, but officials didn’t name the firm in a press release this week due to “operational security.” More than two months ago, the service awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build the emerging technology. Attention to space-based AMTI has grown after an expensive E-3 Sentry AWACS was heavily damaged during the first weeks of the Iran war. The three new space-based AMTI contracts total $615 million, a mere fraction of the $4 billion given to SpaceX.