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A new, low-cost launcher effort for the U.S. Air Force won't begin for at least a year. Officials at Kirtland AFB, N.M., had asked industry what systems may be available to place a payload up to 3,000 lb. into a 400-naut.-mi. Sun-synchronous orbit. The responses show the Air Force is better off...

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