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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.
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.
The paper described two concepts, Hyper-A capable of reaching Mach 6 and Hyper-Z capable of reaching Mach 10, both rocket-powered and released from Stratolaunch’s aircraft.
Stratolaunch will use Pegasus XL rockets from Northrop Grumman with the ability to launch as many as three Pegasus XL rockets on a single flight.
Stratolaunch had made significant progress on an engine called PGA that used liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant and could produce 90,718 kg-force of thrust.
Stratolaunch’s aircraft completed its first and to-date only flight on 2019-04-13.
Those two Pegasus rockets at Vandenberg were being built for Stratolaunch, the venture backed by the late Paul Allen that planned to launch Pegasus rockets from its giant aircraft.
At Stratolaunch Systems, Melanie Preisser led all Washington, D.C. operations for the company.
The Stratolaunch aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 9:58 a.m. Eastern on its first flight.
Stratolaunch currently plans to launch Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL from the aircraft.
Stratolaunch has an agreement to use the Pegasus rocket for launches from the giant aircraft it is developing at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
Several companies, including SpaceX, Stratolaunch, and Virgin Galactic, announced layoffs in early 2019.
Stratolaunch planned to continue tests of its aircraft and planned a first flight in 2019.
On 2019-01-09 the Stratolaunch aircraft reached a speed of nearly 220 km per hour during a taxi test.
When Paul Allen announced Stratolaunch in late 2011 the original design called for the plane to use a modified version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as the launch system.
Stratolaunch ended work on its own family of launch vehicles on 2019-01-18 and decided to use its aircraft for launching Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rockets.
Stratolaunch was developing an engine called PGA using liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants intended to produce up to 90,718 kg-force of thrust.
In September 2017 Stratolaunch signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Stennis Space Center to use propulsion test facilities there.
In August 2018 Stratolaunch announced development of the Medium Launch Vehicle capable of placing up to 3,400 kg into low Earth orbit with a planned first launch in 2022.