Stratolaunch announced it had successfully completed a separation release test of TA-0, the company’s Talon-A separation test vehicle. The flight was Roc’s 11th and occasioned the second instance in which the company’s teams conducted flight operations within Vandenberg Space Force Base's Western Range. The flight, which lasted a total of four-hours and eight-minutes, demonstrated the Talon-A launch system’s capability to cleanly and safely separate hypersonic vehicles from Roc's center-wing pylon.
Kathy Lueders, the latest of an august line of NASA human spaceflight experts, has thrown in with Elon Musk’s SpaceX boffins for purpose of lending her expertise to the ongoing development of the company’s Starship spacecraft.
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