DARPA's experimental space plane XS-1 starts development
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 08:01
in Mathematics & Economics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to develop a fully-reusable unmanned spaceplane, and they are now ready to start working their proposed Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1). The agency has put together a "special forces" of sorts in the space industry, awarding prime contracts for the first phase of development to a combination of six companies.