Tag: Black Ice
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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch unveils plans for new family of rockets (and a space plane)
Artwork shows Stratolaunch’s giant carrier plane and several classes of launch vehicles, including Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket, a medium-class rocket and its heavy-lift variant, and a fully reusable space plane. (Stratolaunch Illustration) Stratolaunch, the space venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, today provided the first details about a new family of launch…
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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch aims to put the world’s biggest plane in the air this summer
Stratolaunch’s twin-fuselage plane catches the rays of the sun during a test outing. (Stratolaunch Photo) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space company says it’s on track to conduct the first test flight of its mammoth airplane this summer, and use it to send rockets into orbit as early as 2020. The status…