Winds Foil Second Stratolaunch Hypersonic Retest Attempt

Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier aircraft returns to Mojave with the TA-2 still attached on Dec 13.

Credit: Issei Kobayashi
COLORADO SPRINGS—Stratolaunch is setting up for a third attempt at the first reusable test flight of the Talon A hypersonic testbed after aborting a second mission on Dec. 17. The planned test of the second Talon TA-2 flight was scrubbed because winds at the planned recovery site at Vandenberg Space...
Guy Norris

Guy is a Senior Editor for Aviation Week, covering technology and propulsion. He is based in Colorado Springs.

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