BOSTON -- The Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation plans to launch a microsatellite this winter in an experiment designed to explore ways of providing rapid and low-cost access to space. The Operationally Responsive Space Experiment, also called "TacSat-1," will cost less than $15 million. The launch, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, is scheduled for only about nine months after OFT approved the project this spring. OFT is providing the bulk of the funding for the project, retired Vice Adm...
