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DARPA Awards Contracts For XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Design

Pat Host

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

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DARPA Awards Contracts For XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Design

Artist's illustration of a concept for DARPA's XS-1 experimental spaceplane. Photo: DARPA.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said Tuesday it awarded contracts to three companies to begin work on its XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane program. Contracts were awarded to Boeing [BA] (teaming with Blue Origin), Masten Space Systems (working with XCOR Aerospace) and Northrop Grumman [NOC] (working with Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites). Boeing was awarded a $4 million preliminary design contract, the company said Tuesday in a statement. Lockheed Martin [LMT] spokesman Gary Napier said Tuesday the company was not…

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