Stratolaunch Systems, a U.S. aerospace company, announced that the Roc, now the world’s largest aircraft, completed its second test flight on April 29th, U.S. time, two years after its last test flight. This is the second attempt after 2 years since the last test flight.
Comprehensive foreign media reports, April 29 at 10:00 a.m. EST (10:00 p.m. Taiwan time on April 29), the U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch’s super-large aircraft successfully completed its second test flight at the Mojave Space Launch Center in California, flying at an altitude of 14,000 feet (about 4.267 kilometers), with a maximum speed of 320 kilometers per hour and a total flight time of 3 hours and 14 minutes. The flight time was 3 hours and 14 minutes. The purpose of the test flight was to confirm the aircraft’s performance and crew capacity, as well as to review the effectiveness of a series of previous improvements, and Stratolaunch was quite satisfied with the results of the test.
According to reports, the world’s largest existing aircraft named “Roc” has a twin-fuselage configuration with six engines and a wingspan of 117 meters, which is longer than the length of a standard American soccer field (110 meters). The “Roc” was originally designed as a “small satellite launch platform”, hoping to launch a rocket at an altitude of about 10 kilometers to send a satellite directly into space orbit, and in the future it is planned to be used as a launch platform for a hypersonic vehicle. In the future, it is planned to be used as a launch platform for hypersonic vehicles.
According to the report, in response to the successful completion of the test flight, Stratolaunch insiders said that this is a major milestone for the development of “supersonic” flight services. It is reported that Stratolaunch is currently developing a reusable Talon-A supersonic vehicle with a maximum speed of Mach 6 (more than five times the speed of sound), which can provide about one minute of supersonic flight, and the future plan is to carry Talon-A by “Roc” and ignite its liquid rocket propulsion in the air for takeoff. Talon-A is expected to complete development and assembly in 2022 and begin testing in 2023.
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