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Stratolaunch payloads.
Is the spaceplane for manned or unmanned launches?
wrote in message ... Meet Stratolaunch's Family Of Space Launch Vehicles For Its Huge 'Roc' Mothership: "Space launch firm Stratolaunch has unveiled ambitious plans for four different launch vehicles, including a reusable space plane, to go along with its massive carrier aircraft. The company's goal is to use the multi-tier concept to provide a cost-effective and relatively quick means of putting payloads weighing more than 13,000 pounds into orbit and potentially bringing other cargo, or even personnel, to and from the Earth's surface, all of which could be especially useful for military applications. The Washington state-headquartered company, which Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, set up in 2011, announced its latest vision for the Stratolaunch system on Aug. 20, 2018. The planned family of launch vehicles will include Orbital Sciences Corporation's Pegasus XL, followed by a Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV), a more capable Medium Launch Vehicle-Heavy (MLV-H), and finally, a space plane known as "Black Ice."" See: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...roc-mothership |
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Stratolaunch payloads.
"Rocket Man" wrote on Thu, 30 Aug 2018
06:43:22 +0200: Is the spaceplane for manned or unmanned launches? Unmanned at present, although it could be manned in the future. Google is your friend... https://mainenginecutoff.com/blog/2018/03/black-ice -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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