USAF Cements SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Certification Path

Credit: SpaceX
The U.S. Air Force and launch Startup Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) have finally hammered out a road map to certification of the untested Falcon 9 Version 1.1 launch vehicle that is expected to compete to put sensitive Pentagon payloads into orbit. This is the latest step by the Air Force...

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