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Stratolaunch plans to use its Roc aircraft as a platform for launching hypersonic test vehicles and conducted an unpowered drop test of Talon TA-0 on 2023-05-13 off the California coast.
Stratolaunch built a larger custom aircraft called Roc originally to serve as an air-launch platform.
Virgin Orbit filed a stalking-horse bid agreement with Stratolaunch on 2023-05-16 under which Stratolaunch would buy Virgin Orbit’s Boeing 747 aircraft and related equipment for $17,000,000.
Stratolaunch LLC completed a separation release test of the Talon-A separation test vehicle TA-0.
Stratolaunch in Mojave, California received a 2022 ACO selection to bring shuttle orbiter thermal protection system technology into the 21st century with NASA Ames.
Stratolaunch’s Roc launch aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Space Port on 2023-04-01 for its tenth flight and third captive carry with the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-1.
Stratolaunch LLC completed a third captive carry flight of the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-0.
Stratolaunch is working with Ursa Major Technologies in qualification testing of the engine that will propel TA-1.
Stratolaunch will use Roc as a platform for launching a series of hypersonic vehicles called Talon.
Cerberus Capital Management acquired Stratolaunch in 2019.
Stratolaunch refocused resources on a vehicle called Talon-A that will be air-launched from its carrier aircraft to test hypersonic systems.
Under Cerebus ownership, Stratolaunch shifted from being a launch services provider using air-launch systems to supporting hypersonic testing with a vehicle called Talon-A.
Stratolaunch is positioning its vehicle system to offer the U.S. Department of Defense a means to test hypersonic technologies in a simpler, repeatable, and reusable way to mitigate risk for expensive flight testing.
Talon-A will be powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, will launch from Stratolaunch’s aircraft, will fly to speeds of Mach 5 to Mach 7, and will glide back to a runway landing.
Stratolaunch plans to procure Talon-A’s engine from another company that Stratolaunch will name at a later date.
By 2023, Stratolaunch plans to support multiple Talon-A missions on a single flight of its aircraft, with as many as three Talon-A vehicles carried by the plane at once.
On 2020-03-30, Stratolaunch is developing a reusable hypersonic vehicle designed to be launched from the company’s giant aircraft.
Stratolaunch has not provided a timetable for developing the Black Ice spaceplane.
Mark Bitterman, vice president for government relations and business development at Stratolaunch, presented at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference on 2020-03-04 in Broomfield, Colorado.
A paper by three Stratolaunch employees presented at the AIAA Space 2018 conference described using the company’s giant aircraft to host air-launched hypersonic experimental vehicles.