Stratolaunch ROC completed a second test flight that was successful

Stratolaunch is a company that plans to launch a hypersonic vehicle not from the ground on the ground but from under the airplane high into the Earth’s atmosphere. The plane that will launch a hypersonic vehicle called Roc Stratolaunch, and yesterday the company completed the second test flight from a massive plane. ROC is the biggest aircraft ever built.

The giant plane has a wing wing ward and take off from the water port and Mojave Space in South California at 10:28 EDT on Thursday, April 29. Flight tests are a data collection mission that lasts three hours and 14 minutes. ROC reaches a maximum height of 14,000 feet during the test flight and the highest speed of 199 MPH.

Stratolaunch issued a statement that said that the company was very happy with how the plane appeared and was excited about how close the plane would launch its first hypersonic vehicle. The first flight test for airplanes in April 2019. Initially, Stratolaunch was imagined as a way to launch a satellite at a lower cost of the air.

The company was sold in October 2019, and the ROC mission changed to serve as a cellular launch platform for hypersonic vehicles. The company develops its own Hypersonic vehicle family, including 28 feet airplanes that can be reused called Talon-a. Large ROC aircraft can carry loads, test materials, and fly in various profiles that are attractive to the US military.

The military is interested in hypersonic vehicles both for offensive and defensive use. If everything goes according to plan, ROC will carry Talon – test vehicle in 2022. That the first Talon test vehicle will be a single airplane, with a version that can be reused again flown by 2023.