Just to recap the news from Commercial Space in the last week:
- SpaceX gets approval to combine their COTS demonstration flights 2 and 3 into a single flight, and a firm launch date of February 7, 2011. We're only eight weeks away from the first commercial delivery of supplies to the ISS!
- StratoLaunch announces their plans to build an air-launched solution for placing payloads of up to 13,500 kg in LEO. Scaled Composites will create the world's largest airplane to carry a SpaceX Falcom 9 derivative to 30,000 feet where the rocket will be launched to orbit.
- NASA announces they will be using Space Act Agreements, rather than FAR-based contracts for the third phase of the Commercial Crew Development program.
- Orbital Sciences announced that its new launcher (also part of the COTS program), formerly known as the Taurus II, has been renamed the Antares.
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