U.S. Sets One-Day Orbital Launch Challenge

Credit: Virgin Orbit
Space launches take months or years to plan, but the U.S. Air Force now wants to demonstrate how to compress the schedule to a single day. The new Rapid Space Launch Initiative ( RSLI) challenges space launch providers to propose concepts for demonstrating an on-orbit capability for a satellite...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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