To: BenLurkin
What will be it’s purpose?...............
5 posted on
12/19/2017 2:36:29 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Carries smaller rockets to high altitudes and they launch into orbit.
8 posted on
12/19/2017 2:38:35 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
"...what will be its purpose..."
To carry satellites to cruising altitude and launch them from there.
9 posted on
12/19/2017 2:38:39 PM PST by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Red Badger
Unless someone plans on hanging something between, it seems hard to imagine the value.
To: Red Badger
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What will be it’s purpose? From the article:
...The private spaceflight company Stratolaunch is the brainchild of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The carrier plane is designed to make a runway-style takeoff and then, at cruising altitude, deploy rockets that can launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit...
13 posted on
12/19/2017 2:41:30 PM PST by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: Red Badger
It is to be an elevated launch platform. It get's a rocket to high altitude for orbital launch. Rendering:
25 posted on
12/19/2017 2:52:53 PM PST by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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