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Air force print news : Edwards, DARPA explore new C-17 capability
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Soaring 6,000 feet above
the sun-baked California desert, a pair of Edwards aircraft--a
C-17 Globemaster III shadowed by a C-12 Huron observer
aircraft--carried out an unusual mission with an even more
unusual cargo recently.
The rear of the aircraft yawned open, and at the prompt
of "five, four, three, two, one, green light," the
loadmasters released the restraints and a 65-foot rocket
slid out the back of the aircraft beginning its descent
to the desert floor. |
The rocket drop was a test mission--the first of a series
dubbed the Falcon Small Launch Vehicle program. The program
is a joint venture between the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency and the Air Force. It is designed to develop
a new method of putting a 1,000-pound payload into low-Earth
orbit.
This first test was the successful drop of an inert version
of a QuickReach Booster rocket filled with water to increase
its weight to 50,000 pounds--about two-thirds the weight
of an actual booster.
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