News Archive / Tagged: Stratolaunch

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Space Bulletin for April 19, 2019

  Derek RichardsonApril 19th, 2019

  In this week's Space Bulletin, the world's largest aircraft takes flight while the NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft launches to and berths with the ISS.

• Gallery: Stratolaunch arcs across Golden skies

  Jason RhianApril 14th, 2019

  When Howard Hughes took his wooden "Spruce Goose" into the skies it was the first and only time the vehicle lifted off the ground (or ocean as it were). Saturday's flight of the massive Stratolaunch aircraft will likely not encounter the same fate.

• Stratolaunch aircraft makes 1st flight

  Patrick AttwellApril 13th, 2019

  At 6:58 a.m. PST (13:58 GMT) April 13, 2019, the world’s largest airplane took to the skies for the first time above the Mojave Desert.

• Stratolaunch abandons plans to develop family of rockets

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 21st, 2019

  It seems that Stratolaunch, a company working to develop an aircraft to air-launch rockets, may be scaling back its operations.

• Stratolaunch rolls out of hangar, conducts fueling test

  Heather SmithJune 1st, 2017

  The Stratolaunch aircraft was revealed for the first time on May 31 for a fueling test after completing the key milestone of its construction phase; the company rolled the vehicle from its hangar and will now begin the aircraft's next stage of development.

• Update: Vulcan Aerospace / Stratolaunch

  Scott JohnsonMay 4th, 2015

  At the 2015 Space Symposium held in Colorado Springs, Colorado an announcement was made that Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has launched a new company, Vulcan Aerospace. SpaceFlight Insider had the opportunity to sit down, one on one, with Charles “Chuck” Beames, president of Vulcan Aerospace, to discuss the company and its plans for the future.

• A new partnership: Sierra Nevada and Stratolaunch join forces

  SpaceFlight InsiderOctober 6th, 2014

  A presentation by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and Stratolaunch investment group, Vulcan Inc., were one of the highlights at Toronto’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC2014) on Wednesday, Oct. 1. One day earlier on Sept. 30, SNC announced a new design for an integrated human spaceflight system. The unique Dream Chaser-Stratolauncher design involves a scaled version of […]