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Report: DARPA, Boeing to Test, Launch Reusable Spaceplane at Cape Canaveral

Report: DARPA, Boeing to Test, Launch Reusable Spaceplane at Cape Canaveral - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Report: DARPA, Boeing to Test, Launch Reusable Spaceplane at Cape Canaveral - top government contractors - best government contracting eventRick Weiss, a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said Cape Canaveral in Florida will serve as the site for flight tests and launch operations for a hypersonic aircraft to be developed under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday.

DARPA partnered with Boeing in May to build an unmanned reusable spaceplane – Phantom Express – that will work to field an expendable upper stage to launch a 3,000-pound satellite into low-Earth orbit.

The report said Boeing competed with Masten Space Systems and Northrop Grumman for the potential $146 million contract to develop and test the XS-1 spaceplane with DARPA under a public-private partnership.

Officials told Spaceflight Now the space vehicle is expected to take off and land at Cape Canaveral by 2020.

XS-1 will have a first stage that will return to the launch site for use in future flights and will run on an Aerojet Rocketdyne-built AR-22 engine, the report added.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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