November 12, 2012
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $34 million contract to Orbital Sciences to develop an ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Equipment (EAGLE) system for small payloads functioning at geostationary orbit, Orbital Sciences announced. The EAGLE spacecraft platform is based on the evolved expendable launch vehicle’s secondary payload adaptor (ESPA), which carries...
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