Roc Begets Speed Metal

On 28 October 2022, Stratolaunch commenced infight testing of its Talon-A prototype. Roc, the Stratolaunch carrier-aircraft, bore the unmanned Talon-A test-vehicle (TA-0) into the azure vastness above California's Mojave Desert, thereby proving itself and its amidships attachment pylon capable of carrying the experimental hypersonic vehicles upon which Stratolaunch’s business model is predicated. The flight, Roc’s eighth, lasted just over five-hours, reaching a maximum altitude of FL230 (7,000 m), and reportedly meeting the entirety of its engineering, performance, and telemetric objectives.

You’ll Love the Way We Fly—Or Don’t

The pilots of Delta Airlines, represented by the Airline Pilots Association, International (ALPA), have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike-authorization ballot. Ninety-nine-percent of the over 96-percent of Delta pilots who participated in the vote authorized union leaders to call a strike, if necessary, to achieve a new contractual agreement with Delta Airlines.

Space and Politics: Vacuum and Vacuity

Konstantin Vorontsov of the Russian Foreign Ministry has made clear to a United Nations forum that Moscow reserves the right to disable or destroy commercial satellites providing internet access to Ukraine. “Quasi-civilian infrastructure may become a legitimate target for retaliation,” Vorontsov asserted, adding: “Such actions in fact constitute indirect participation in military conflicts.”

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Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA) The lowest MSL altitude at which an IFR aircraft will be vectored by a radar controller, except as otherwise authorized for radar approaches, departures, and missed approaches. The altitude meets IFR obstacle clearance criteria. It may be lower than the published MEA along an airway or J-route segment. It may be utilized for radar vectoring only upon the controller’s determination that an adequate radar return is being received from the aircraft being controlled. Charts depicting minimum vectoring altitudes are normally available only to the controllers and not to pilots.

"I was ecstatic seeing those two vehicles combined as they lifted off the runway and into the sky. Seeing our flight products operating together represents a significant step towards regular and reusable hypersonic flight." Source: Stratolaunch CEO and President Zachary Krevor, expessing his thoughts after Stratolaunch commenced infight testing of its Talon-A prototype. Roc bore the Talon-A test-vehicle (TA-0) into the azure vastness above California's Mojave Desert, thereby proving itself and its amidships attachment pylon capable of carrying the experimental hypersonic vehicles Stratolaunch’s management and investors hope to presently see racing regularly spaceward.