WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stratolaunch, a privately held U.S. company, conducted its second “captive carry” test of a reusable hypersonic test vehicle, the company said on Saturday.
The Talon-A hypersonic vehicle was loaded with live propellant and carried aloft by the Spirit of Mojave, a modified Boeing 747-400, on a more than four-hour flight over the Pacific Ocean.
In a captive carry test, the payload craft does not separate from the carrier aircraft.
(Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
