DART Vehicle Preps For Launch Later This Year
By Staff Writer | July 15, 2004
Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] today said its Demonstration Of Autonomous Rendezvous (DART) spacecraft arrived at the company’s integration-and- processing facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The DART vehicle will be used to test technologies required for a spacecraft to locate and rendezvous with another spacecraft without direct human guidance. The DART vehicle is scheduled for launch on a Pegasus vehicle in the fourth quarter.