Orbital sees X-34 evolving into small commercial RLV

Orbital Sciences Corp. hopes the technology it wrings out on NASA's X- 34 suborbital flying testbed will evolve into a commercial reusable launch vehicle able to orbit Taurus-class and smaller payloads at much lower cost than today, according to OSC's X-34 program manager. Work on the X-34 is...

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