Paul Allen's Stratolaunch, the world's biggest airplane, completed a crucial taxi test just days after the billionaire philanthropist's death. The Microsoft co-founder's humongous plane is scheduled ...

LOS ANGELES — Stratolaunch was advertised as a way to make launching satellites as routine as operations at an airport. Now, just six months after the massive rocket-launching plane finally took its ...

A photo taken during a high-speed taxi test shows the nose gear on Stratolaunch’s twin-fuselage airplane rising from the runway at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. (Stratolaunch Photo) ...

Aviation has a new number one in size, as a one-of-a-kind airplane completed its first test flight on Saturday morning above California’s Mojave desert, people familiar with the flight told CNBC. The ...

A Talon-A test vehicle separates from its launch system. (Ethan Wagner/Stratolaunch) Following a successful test flight in which its Talon-A vehicle reached near-hypersonic speeds, Stratolaunch is ...

The biggest airplane ever built, which will tote a variety of satellite-launching rockets into the sky, just got a step closer to flight. Stratolaunch Systems, which was established in 2011 by the ...

An illustration of the "family" of launch vehicles Stratolaunch plans to offer, from the existing Pegasus XL (left) to a potential reusable spaceplane (right.) Credit: Stratolaunch WASHINGTON — ...

World’s Largest Aircraft Seen with Engines Running and New Test Payload at Mojave. A tip from one of the most accomplished spotters in the U.S. on Thursday, October 13, 2022, led TheAviationist to the ...

Stratolaunch’s plane took its first test flight in April. (Scaled Composites Photo) Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen in 2011 to build a flying ...

The Stratolaunch aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Space Port two years after its maiden flight. The Stratolaunch six-engine jet, the aircraft with the world’s largest wingspan, has just launched ...

Seven years ago, Microsoft founder Paul Allen started a company with a bold idea: build one of the biggest aircraft ever to fly, and then use it to launch satellites into orbit. Now just months before ...

Stratolaunch was advertised as a way to make launching satellites as routine as operations at an airport. Now, just six months after the massive rocket-launching plane finally took its first flight ...