Orlando, Florida. (Reuters) - a SpaceX Ilona Mask was prepared on Tuesday to launch a fresh spy satellite for the U.S. military, noting that, according to the texts of the galactic transport company, it was her appointed mission 1 state of security for the United States.

The SpaceX Falcon 9's rocket, carrying a satellite of approximately $ 500 million, plug on Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N), was scheduled to rise from Cape Canaveral in Florida shortly thereafter 9 am (1700 GMT) by district time, said the US air force.

Start-up on Tuesday, in the case of a furor, will be the victory of Musk, a billionaire, a businessman who has already tried a large number of years to break into the Bazaar profitable soldiers galactic launches long ago dominated by workers Lockheed and Boeing (BA.Nordic.)

SpaceX filed a lawsuit against the U.S. air force in 2014 in a signal of disobedience in front of the military awarding a multibillion-dollar non-competitive contract for 36 missile launches for the United Launch Alliance, a partnership between Boeing and Lockheed.

SpaceX categorically refused the claim in 2015, subsequently such as the air force agreed to discover the competition, according to the site SpaceX.

In a proper year, SpaceX won the air force contract to launch a GPS satellite at a price of $ 83 million, which will own a service life of 15 years, said the air force Commissioner William Russell on the telephone.

The launch on Tuesday is considered the first of 32 satellites in Lockheed production under contracts for a joint required amount of $ 12.6 billion for the air force's GPS III program, Lockheed Commissioner chip Eschenfelder said.

USA Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that he would actually go to Florida to exist at the launch, which he called “an important step forward because we are eager to guarantee South American leadership in space.”

"Subsequently, the absolute operation of this latest generation of GPS satellites will deliver users fresh abilities, in that amount of 3 times the huge accuracy and 8 one more chances of defense against interference,"said Russell.

The upcoming GPS III satellite will be launched in mid-2019, said Eschenfelder, while further satellites are being tested at the firm's facility in Colorado.

The launch marks the first for example referred to as the galactic goal of state protection SpaceX, specific South American soldiers, said SpaceX.

The Hawthorne firm, based in California, launched before the necessary load for the Ministry of defence in 2017, which have not been designated as a galactic missions of national security.