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Sunday, October 09, 2005

Edwards, DARPA explore new C-17 capability
A C-17 recently tested the extraction of a 65-foot mockup rocket at 6,000ft.

The rocket drop was the first of a series dubbed the Falcon Small Launch Vehicle program. It is designed to develop a new method of putting a 1,000-pound payload into low-Earth orbit.

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