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DARPA Selects Aurora For Phoenix Satellite Harvesting Program

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently selected Aurora Flight Sciences to participate in its Phoenix program, the company said. The goals of the Phoenix program are developing technologies to cooperatively harvest, and re-use, valuable components from retired and non-working satellites in geostationary orbit and to demonstrate the ability to create new spacecraft systems at greatly reduced cost, a statement said. Aurora and its partners, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will develop prototypes…

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