05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
... such as airborne traffic and cancelations due to bad weather. Stratolaunch was built by Scaled Composites, a Mojave-based aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites is also the company that built SpaceShipOne and White Knight Two...
15 April 2019
Stratolaunch completes maiden flight successfully
... launched systems. We are incredibly proud of the Stratolaunch team, today’s flight crew, our partners at Northrup Grumman’s Scaled Composites and the Mojave Air and Space Port.” Roc took off at 6:58 am PDT (13:58 GMT) and stayed in the...
02 December 2014
SpaceShipTwo lost
Manufactured by Scaled Composites at its Mojave, California base, a SpaceShip -Two rocketplane crashed during a test flight on 31 October 2014 , with the ...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...given high enough traffic levels for economies of scale. Just as steam locomotives transformed land transport, ...of the only other suborbital spaceplane to have flown - the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne. This hiatus is an indication of the lack of ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites launched the first privately manned vehicle beyond Earth’s ... life elsewhere in our Solar System will tip the scale from extinction to evolution. Apart from its extraordinary potential...
