SpaceX, USAF Aim For Full Falcon 9 Certification In Mid-2015

The U.S. Air Force and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) are now targeting midyear for full certification of the launch upstart’s Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket to loft Pentagon payloads into orbit, a setback in the company’s ambitions to break the launch monopoly of the United Launch Alliance (ULA)...

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