New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

DARPA plans to award the first design contracts for its XS-1 space plane project in May or thereabouts. The agency wants the XS-1 to get off the ground in late 2017 and make an orbital test flight the following year.

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