
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will soon issue a request for information on commercial and government payloads it could use in an upcoming launch competition, an agency official said May 23.The RFI will be “coming out in the next week or two," said Todd Master, program manager for the DARPA Launch Challenge. “We’re trying to find interesting payloads that we can put on orbit” while maintaining a level playing field for the launch competitors. The Launch Challenge is designed…