Tag: Talon-A
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Stratolaunch Passes 10 Successful Talon-A Hypersonic Flights
Talon-A flies through Earth’s atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound, the threshold that defines hypersonic flight. Stratolaunch operates two of the vehicles, each about 28 feet long with an 11.3 foot wingspan, and drops them from carrier aircraft to test sensors and advanced materials in the hypersonic flight environment. “Reaching more…
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Stratolaunch flies mammoth airplane with separation test vehicle hooked onto it
The triangular Talon-A separation test vehicle can be seen attached to a pylon between the fuselages of Stratolaunch’s Roc aircraft after takeoff. (Stratolaunch via Twitter) Stratolaunch — the air-launch company founded by the late Seattle software billionaire Paul Allen — put a test version of its hypersonic vehicle through its first in-the-air trial today. The…
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Stratolaunch resurrects its hypersonic rocket vehicle under a new name: Talon-A
An artist’s conception shows Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle. (Stratolaunch Illustration) Now that it’s under new management, Stratolaunch is retooling a concept for a rocket-powered hypersonic vehicle that it first unveiled 18 months ago. Back then, it was called the Hyper-A testbed vehicle, and it represented one of the engineering frontiers for Microsoft co-founder Paul…