03 June 2019
Stratolaunch to close operations
... untimely death last year to ensure the remarkable engineering feat behind the aircraft was a viable one. Stratolaunch Systems, which is part of Allen's new aerospace company Vulcan Aerospace, a subsidiary of Vulcan, Inc, announced in 2014 that...
15 April 2019
Stratolaunch completes maiden flight successfully
...; “Today’s flight furthers our mission to provide a flexible alternative to ground 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...
05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
... platform in which to launch from, it can avoid hazards 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...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
... now experiencing a flourish of innovation led by entrepreneurial private sector companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Stratolaunch Systems. Competition between these companies, together with their focus on increasing re-usability and reliability...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... ‘new space’ companies and initiatives like the XPrize, SpaceShipOne, SpaceX, Skybox, O3b, ViaSat, Blue Origin, Stratolaunch/Viking, Virgin Galactic, etc. have embraced disruptive new space technology and reinvented the innovative nature...
