Category: stratolaunch

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch is reportedly shutting down

Post author By Randall
Post date May 31, 2019
Categories In gear, paulallen, Space, stratolaunch, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation

[ad_1] Stratolaunch was founded by Paul Allen in 2011 in an effort to develop an air launch to orbit system. It started showing signs of trouble in January this year, a few months after Allen passed away, when it announced that it was scaling back its operations. The company decided not to push through with […]

Stratolaunch completes the first flight of the world’s largest airplane

Post author By Randall
Post date April 13, 2019
Categories In aircraft, flight, gear, paul allen, scaled composites, Space, spaceflight, stratolaunch, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] The aircraft is central to the late Paul Allen’s vision for Stratolaunch when he started the company in 2011. In many ways, it’s a larger parallel to Virgin Galactic’s White Knight Two. It’s meant to reduce the costs of spaceflight by ferrying rockets to an altitude of 35,000 feet and making it easier to […]