Preparing for TA-2 First Flight

Talon-A2 is Stratolaunch’s first recoverable autonomous hypersonic testbed designed to repeatedly air launch, fly a hypersonic trajectory, and land on a standard runway. It represents a new era of low-risk, affordable, and routine access to the hypersonic environment. Take a look inside Stratolaunch’s preparation for various aspects of this historic flight, including expanding capabilities of the air launch platform and world’s largest flight aircraft Roc, and verifying Talon-A2’s various subsystems and landing hardware.

[philipcarter]

I wonder when Roc will get to lift something heavy, as it was built for.

[MonostripeZebra]

Is that bad, that I want to not only see it launch.. but also retrive planes?

[stuntmanmike]

It's like an 18 wheeler hauling a single roll of toilet paper.

[lavericklavericklave]

what would be an example use case for a test payload for hypersonic speed?

[HOOOPER]

0:30 KSP career mode tutorials be like:

[infinitepower]

Kerbals space program has this same style plane. It’s really good for launching mini satellites to space

[trsu]

0:14 cannot hear "Roc" and not think of The Iron Giant

[SloppySalad]

It's great to see Jake Park finally managed to survive Dead By Daylight!

[TheTanman]

The aircraft that launches them can more rapidly become Electric, making it overall much more sustainable. Right on!

[UnrealSom]

Bro it's not that hard to make a TAtoo

[Alestor]

as cool as it is, i dont understand the point of this aircraft? and what purpese it serves

[ridhobaihaqi]

My country's aerospace research: 📉📉📉📉📉