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Pentagon Preps for Orbital War With New Spaceplane

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The XS-1 could replace satellites lost in battle—fast and cheap.

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Aerospace giant Boeing just snagged a $6.6 million contract to design a cheap, reusable spaceplane for the U.S. military. The idea: to equip America’s space forces with an airplane-like vehicle that can fly to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere and quickly boost small satellites into orbit, and then land, refuel,...

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