Former space architect says payloads not ready for launch-on-demand

A launch-on-demand requirement is probably forthcoming from the Pentagon in the years ahead, but meeting it will require at least as much improvement in satellites as in the rockets that will be needed to get them into space quickly, the former national security space architect said yesterday. Air...

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