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DULLES, Va., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a follow-on contract to Orbital Sciences Corp. to continue development of a spacecraft system.
U.S. company Orbital announced it received a phase II award from DARPA following the company's strong performance during phase I of the System F6, or Future Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft, program.
Under the $74.6 million phase II deal, Orbital will conduct testing on the space architecture technologies designed to replace large spacecraft systems with "clusters of wirelessly interconnected spacecraft modules," a release said.
"System F6 has the potential to be a game-changing innovation in the way space systems are designed, built and operated in much the same way as the DARPA-developed Internet has changed many aspects of our daily lives," Gregg Burgess, Orbital National Security Systems vice president, said in a statement.
"System F6 is not just an incremental improvement in technology, but rather a fundamental transformation of the entire space community."
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