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Liberty Lifter was intended to design and build a seaplane with the cargo capacity of a C-17 Globemaster, that could take off ...
Bell will design and build a high-speed VTOL demonstrator for DARPA’s SPRINT program, as Aurora exits the competition.
Scott Wierzbanowski, experimental space plane program manager at DARPA, described it as a “launch on demand” kind of service, in which smaller satellites could be taken to a specific orbit ...
DARPA's answer to this crisis was to create a concept for a space plane called the XS-1 that could put satellites into orbit (up to 3,000-lb. or 1,360-kilogram payloads) or service existing ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked Boeing to design and build the XS-1 military space plane, a robotic spacecraft for launching small satellites.
The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Bell Textron to build an X-plane demonstrator capable of flying at speeds of up to 450 knots, with the office […] ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Boeing a contract to build its spaceplane in an effort to make launching space satellites cheaper and easier.
Bell to Build X-Plane for Phase 2 of DARPA Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane Program  Front Page ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to develop living structures in space that can self-assemble and adapt to environmental conditions.
DARPA wants to create a tiny unmanned plane that could ... hours at a time and vertically take off and land from anywhere in the world that has roughly 320 square feet of clear space. (DARPA) ...
An XS-1 space plane would also be much faster than NASA's just-retired shuttles. DARPA's pitch to potential designers is that the new machine be capable of hypersonic flight -- in this case, a ...
DARPA's answer to this crisis was to create a concept for a space plane called the XS-1 that could put satellites into orbit (up to 3,000-lb. or 1,360-kilogram payloads) or service existing ...