Five teams are competing for a single flight opportunity under NASA’s New Millennium space technology demonstration program. NASA intends to select one of the five teams in 2006 to develop an in-space demonstration that could be launched by the end of the decade for $130 million. The flight demonstration is intended to validate breakthrough technologies that could find their way into future Earth and space science missions.

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