Tag: Talon-A
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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…