SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has lodged an October 26, 2009 bid protest with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) against Virginia-based and publicly traded Orbital Sciences Corporation relating to the launch NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft using surplus missile hardware, according to SpaceNews.
LADEE is now set to be launched aboard a Minotaur 5 in May 2012 from Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Accomack County. It would be the first lunar launch from the spaceport. The GAO will make a finding prior to the end of January 2010.
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