Roc, the biggest airplane in the world, aced its first drop test over the weekend.
aced its first-ever drop test on Saturday , successfully releasing a prototype of the company's Talon hypersonic vehicle high above the Pacific Ocean off the central California coast.
"With this significant milestone complete, we move on to preparing for our first hypersonic flight in late fall this year," Zachary Krevor, the company's CEO and president, said during a call with reporters today ."It's a very exciting time for our company."Stratolaunch successfully releases the Talon-0 separation test vehicle from its Roc air-launch platform on May 13, 2023.
Roc, which has a wingspan longer than a football field, carried the company's Talon-0 separation test vehicle between its twin fuselages. The giant plane headed west, eventually dropping Talon-0 when it was off California's central coast. "We got to watch it set up for a mock landing and eventually touch down on the water," Scott Schultz, Stratolaunch's senior director of engineering, said on today's call, referring to Talon-0.
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