Stratolaunch Systems will use rockets made by Orbital ATK to launch satellites from the huge aircraft it is developing in Mojave, the companies announced Thursday. Under a multiyear “production-based ...

Aviation has a new number one in size, as a one-of-a-kind airplane completed its first test flight on Saturday morning above California’s Mojave desert, people familiar with the flight told CNBC. The ...

The Stratolaunch aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Space Port two years after its maiden flight. The Stratolaunch six-engine jet, the aircraft with the world’s largest wingspan, has just launched ...

World’s Largest Aircraft Seen with Engines Running and New Test Payload at Mojave. A tip from one of the most accomplished spotters in the U.S. on Thursday, October 13, 2022, led TheAviationist to the ...

Paul Allen's Stratolaunch, the world's biggest airplane, completed a crucial taxi test just days after the billionaire philanthropist's death. The Microsoft co-founder's humongous plane is scheduled ...

Stratolaunch’s plane took its first test flight in April. (Scaled Composites Photo) Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen in 2011 to build a flying ...

Artwork shows Stratolaunch’s giant carrier plane and several classes of launch vehicles, including Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket, a medium-class rocket and its heavy-lift variant, and a fully ...

Stratolaunch, the company behind the world’s largest plane, has unveiled plans for a hypersonic vehicle it hopes will offer customers a way of rapidly testing advanced flight technologies. The Talon-A ...

An illustration of the "family" of launch vehicles Stratolaunch plans to offer, from the existing Pegasus XL (left) to a potential reusable spaceplane (right.) Credit: Stratolaunch WASHINGTON — ...

Stratolaunch was advertised as a way to make launching satellites as routine as operations at an airport. Now, just six months after the massive rocket-launching plane finally took its first flight ...

Stratolaunch, owner of the world’s largest aircraft, has completed a critical design review of its Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle. The Mojave, California-based company plans to use its massive, ...

A Talon-A test vehicle separates from its launch system. (Ethan Wagner/Stratolaunch) Following a successful test flight in which its Talon-A vehicle reached near-hypersonic speeds, Stratolaunch is ...