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Commercialization

Starfighters to Launch Satellites

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
May 31, 2011
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Starfighters Ready to Launch Satellites
F-104 jet fighters just like the ones astronauts trained in for decades will become a more regular part of the skyscape above NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as a private company expands its fleet of jets with plans to conduct more research flights, launch very small satellites into space and even take paying passengers into the stratosphere. The developments come four years after the company made its first flight from the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, at Kennedy in April 2007.”

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