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    Three teams will compete for millions in DARPA's rocket launch challenge

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    Christine Fisher
    Christine Fisher
    04.11.2019

    Despite all of the advancements in space travel, rocket launches are still hindered by the fact that they take months, if not years, to plan and execute. Because that could slow vital military operations, DARPA created the Launch Challenge: a call for commercial companies to prove they can get rockets into space quickly and on short notice. Now the three finalists have been selected for the next phase of the challenge.