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AFRL Rocket Cargo Concept Tested on SpaceX Starfall Capsule

AFRL Rocket Cargo Concept Tested on SpaceX Starfall Capsule
Pictured from the AFRL website is a SpaceX photo of a "demonstrator AFRL agile cargo pod for training and exercising recovery operations with survival gear cargo."

A SpaceX [SPCX] Starfall capsule for Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) testing of Rocket Cargo space to Earth delivery launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., on Oct. 20 as part of the Band-5 commercial rideshare. The Starfall has "instrumentation to measure temperature, shock, and vibration of the cargo environments" and carried "AFRL agile cargo pod designs built to host various loads for point-to-point delivery anywhere on Earth," the lab said. AFRL said that…

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