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Joe Strout wrote:
This was news to me, maybe it is to you too: SpaceDev is planning to
leverage its experience with the SS1 motor into a small orbital launcher
called "Streaker."

One note of caution: "being developed under contract with AFRL" doesn't
necessarily mean "we've got the money to build and fly it". That contract
could easily be for a little bit of technology R&D that will advance the
project only modestly. Press releases are often written very carefully --
and I'm not talking just about SpaceDev here -- to play up the good news
while never hinting at the roadblocks which remain.
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