I have been following what this team has been doing for a while. Great to see the advancements are still ticking along.
Virgin are working on a system where a high altitude aircraft will deploy a rocket, and a similar system was developed using an F-14 as a launch vehicle.
I'm not away of a single stage system doing this before now though.
I'm just a dummy - but one thing that puzzles me is how this is going to scale to actually transport stuff into space? Especially once it has to have materials on the vehicle to allow it to survive re-entry heat & forces.
@Fizz Nazis had rocket planes 80 years ago.
Which plane? I don't remember them making rocket planes to fly to space.
@Fizz No but they made a rocket plane. Fighter.
Heh, it was barely a plane though - basically wings on a rocket, very little fly time & wasn't landing it so problematic that more often than not it crashed or the pilot bailed?
@TagMeInSkipIGotThis Sure, but 80 years ago… How much did it take from Orwille brothers to Sputnik? 40-50 years?
Things plateau as the "cost to result" ratio becomes more and more unfavorable.
I don't see what you're trying to say.
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