Forget the launchpads, the giant rockets, and the gazillion-dollar prices for getting satellites into space. If Darpa, the military’s wild research arm, has its way, it’ll take little more than a super-smart jumbo jet to rapidly punch our orbiters beyond the sky.
Darpa recently launched a $145 million program that aspires to transform how we get our growing satellite arsenal into orbit — all while keeping an eye on the Pentagon’s pocket book. They want to dispatch satellites from the sky rather than the ground, be able to do it in less than a day’s notice, and cut costs by turning the entire process into an autonomous one.
Read More: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/darpa-satellite-launchers/
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