Scales Composites' (a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman) Model 351 Stratolaunch (called "Roc") is a one-of-a-kind aircraft built as a mobile launch system. The aircraft has one wing and two otherwise ...

Talon-A2 conducted a successful hypersonic flight and recovery in March 2025, after the first in December 2024. Stratolaunch announced on May 5, 2025, the successful completion of its second ...

TA-2 is fully assembled and undergoing integrated systems tests, with the first flight expected later this year. A couple of weeks after the first flight of the Talon-A TA-1 test vehicle, Stratolaunch ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

You know the Airbus A380 — maybe even the Antonov AN-225 (RIP). Now it’s time to say hello to the newest, biggest bird in the skies: the Stratolaunch Roc. The Roc made headlines with its longest test ...

America returns to reusable hypersonic flight testing since the glory days of the X-15. Stratolaunch released a new video documenting the completion of its second hypersonic flight and full recovery ...

Stratolaunch’s carrier airplane releases the TA-1 test vehicle for launch. (Stratolaunch via Vimeo) Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by the late Microsoft co ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch conducted the first powered test flight of a new unmanned craft for hypersonic research on Saturday and called it a success. Hypersonic describes ...

In the legendary series of Arabian folklore, "The One Thousand and One Nights," the Roc is a gigantic mythological bird, said to be so enormous in size that it would carry off an elephant the same way ...