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‘Phantom Express’ approved for quick launches into low Earth orbit

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Published June 11, 2017 2:37pm ET
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‘Phantom Express’ approved for quick launches into low Earth orbit
Boeing, which won a contract to develop and test an experimental space plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is expanding its space business with the acquisition of a satellite-builder. | Image courtesy the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The military’s next reusable space plane has gotten the go-ahead from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and could be in flight tests by 2020.

The agency picked Boeing’s futuristic XS-1 for the tests, and it is being called the biggest revolution for military space programs since Redstone rockets took their first flights in the 1950s.

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