SpaceDev is reportedly planning an event Wednesday to “unveil” its proposed orbital space plane, Dream Chaser, as part of its effort to win a COTS contract from NASA. The event will be held not at the company’s San Diego-area headquarters but instead in the Denver area, where SpaceDev now has a presence after its acquisition of Boulder-based Starsys Engineering; some of its teammates on its COTS proposal are also located in the area. Wednesday, by the way, will mark the second anniversary of the first suborbital spaceflight by SpaceShipOne, powered by a SpaceDev hybrid engine.
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