Air Force weighing methods of EELV upper stage disposal
The Air Force is studying methods of disposing of spent upper stages from Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs), which will remain in orbit around the Earth after the vehicles directly inject satellites into medium Earth orbit (MEO). The first scheduled direct injections by an EELV will be the...
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