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Yay? I'm not sure what I'm missing here. In startup parlance this feels more like a feature than a product (like maybe a division of Lockheed or Boeing).
by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yay? I'm not sure what I'm missing here. In startup parlance this feels more like a feature than a product (like maybe a division of Lockheed or Boeing).
- 0_____0 1y agoIt was a Scaled Composites project (or at least a lot of Scaled people were working on it! I used to work with an ex-SC guy, they had some nifty codename for it), with Paul Allen bankrolling it. They built and started testing, then Paul died and they shuttered. The project was bought by a private equity firm, and now they're back doing this.
- cushychicken 1y agoI thought I recognized that big dual body six engine launch plane!
- 0_____0 1y agoI mean it's only the biggest plane in the world!
- numpad0 1y agoIt is a milestone. "First build succeeded with an artifact exiting(0) with only warnings" is an achievement of its own in heavy industries.
- cushychicken 1y agoHypersonic technology has a lot of strategic military importance. This is a public signal of “we got something to Mach 5 and landed it in one piece - twice”. That’s a pretty good indicator to people who want to get in on hypersonic technology development (I.e. defense contractors) that Stratolaunch is open for business.