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Aviation Week & Space Technology . 4/18/2005, Vol. 162 Issue 16, p34-35. 2p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- This article reports that the U.S. Air Force officials are employing a different strategy on their $32-billion rocket program to divvy up the workload by allocating, instead of competing, a host of launches between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. Along with the first buy, the government provided what was thought to be a one-time investment of $500 million to each contractor to pay for the development of next-generation launch systems. Brian Arnold, the Air Force's program executive officer for space at Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles. Boeing's Delta IV last year flew a heavy-lift demonstration mission that revealed a problem in Boeing's fleet after the rocket's engine prematurely shut down.
- Subjects :
- *ROCKETS (Aeronautics)
*UNITED States Air Force personnel
*ROCKET launching
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00052175
- Volume :
- 162
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Aviation Week & Space Technology
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 16842024