DARPA sets sights on Robotic Space Plane for next generation warfare [feedly]

DARPA sets sights on Robotic Space Plane for next generation warfare
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/DARPA_sets_sights_on_Robotic_Space_Plane_for_next_generation_warfare_999.html

Washington DC (Sputnik) May 31, 2016
The experimental low-cost XS-1 will be able to fly at escape-velocity speeds and catapult 3,000-pound payloads into orbit - and it'll be able to do it again and again. This week the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited design proposals for a satellite-launching robotic space plane, signaling that development of the futuristic aerospace vehicle is all but assured