Unmanned Air-Launched Demonstrators Make Progress

Credit: Onera
In pursuit of flexible‭, ‬affordable launches for small satellites‭, ‬European and U.S‭. ‬researchers are taking slightly different paths to demonstrating that a simple unmanned aircraft could be used as the first stage of a launch system‭.‬ Led by aerospace research agency Onera‭, ‬French...
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