Space Systems Loral to Support DARPA on Revolutionary
Hosted Payload Concept

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 July 2012 05:17:04 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2012
Space Systems/Loral has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine how small satellites can be carried to geostationary orbit (GEO) as hosted payloads on commercial satellites. SS/L was awarded a contract to analyze and define key aspects of DARPA's Phoenix program, which is focused on developing and demonstrating technologies to cooperatively harvest and

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