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To: Red Badger

First? In 2007, DARPA along with Boeing, Ball Aerospace and other team members, flew the very successful Orbital Express mission in which two unmanned spacecraft conducted rendezvous and docking operations, followed by hydrazine fuel transfer (both pressure-driven and pump-driven) from Boeing’s ASTRO spacecraft to Ball’s NextSat and back again from NextSat to ASTRO.


29 posted on 07/15/2025 11:59:59 AM PDT by SFConservative
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To: SFConservative

First between mass produced satellites instead of one-offs, at the very least.


35 posted on 07/15/2025 12:39:49 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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