Pentagon awards contract for ‘fractionated’ satellites

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Pentagon awards contract for ‘fractionated’ satellites

Washington (AFP) March 5, 2008 - Lockheed Martin has
been awarded a 5.7 million dollar Pentagon contract to
design clusters of small, individually launched satellites
that can operate as a network in space, the company
said Wednesday.

The contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research
Agency (DARPA) was for the first phase of a program
dubbed “F6,” which stands for “Future, Fast, Flexible,
Fractionated, Free-Flying Space … more

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