Satellite Launching Aircraft To Begin Ground Testing

Credit: Stratolaunch: Stratolaunch Systems
With a record wingspan of 385 ft., the Stratolaunch satellite launching aircraft has rolled out of the assembly hangar at Mojave, California, to begin ground testing. Designed and built by Scaled Composites, the aircraft is intended to air-launch up to three Orbital ATK Pegasus XL boosters on a...

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