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The Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch or Roc is the world’s largest operating aircraft built by Scaled Composites for Stratolaunch Systems to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) rockets, and subsequently repurposed to offer air launch hypersonic flight testing after a change of ownership.
4 gru 2023 · Stratolaunch's giant Roc airplane conducted its first-ever captive-carry flight with a fueled Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle on Sunday (Dec. 3).
29 paź 2022 · Stratolaunch's giant carrier plane Roc and its Talon-A testbed take their first captive carry flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California on Oct. 28, 2022.
5 sty 2024 · The first X-43A hypersonic research aircraft and its modified Pegasus booster rocket were carried aloft by NASA’s NB-52B carrier aircraft from Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, on June 2, 2001 for the first of three high-speed free flight attempts.
11 mar 2024 · The uncrewed aircraft, which resembles a miniature Rockwell Space Shuttle, was dropped from a six-engined, twin-fuselage captive-carry aircraft known as Roc high above the California desert.
12 mar 2024 · Stratolaunch, a company that aims to launch hypersonic vehicles from the world's largest airplane, aced its first rocket-powered flight on Saturday (March 9) with a historic test over the Pacific...
9 mar 2024 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch conducted the first powered test flight of a new unmanned craft for hypersonic research on Saturday and called it a success. Hypersonic describes flights at speeds of at least Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
