Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct information about Roc’s fuselage design. MOJAVE, Calif. — In Middle Eastern ...

In a scene that could have been taken from science fiction, a start-up firm in the USA has achieved a major milestone in the race for reusable hypersonic flight. California-based Stratolaunch ...

Stratolaunch built and operates the world’s largest airplane by wingspan. It is the twin-fuselage Roc, which serves as an air-launch platform for reusable hypersonic vehicles. Their primary focus is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Stratolaunch Talon-A hypersonic vehicle recently launched from the twin-fuselage Roc carrier aircraft, flew over the Pacific ...

A close-up view shows the Talon-A Test vehicle tucked under Stratolaunch's Roc aircraft Saturday before a milestone mission off the Central Coast. Credit: Stratolaunch/Matt Hartman Stratolaunch, LLC ...

The Roc aircraft takes off from Mojave for the next in a series of flight tests off the coast of Vandenberg Space Force Base, attracting attention Saturday from residents in the Lompoc and Santa Maria ...

US hypersonic development firm Stratolaunch has taken another step toward the first powered flight of its TalonA vehicle. The Mojave, California-based company on 21 November completed taxi testing of ...

The huge wingspan of the Stratolaunch Roc makes it one of the world's biggest jets, but it's not just its sheer size that makes it unique. It's also the fact that, at first glance, the plane looks ...

Roc, the biggest airplane in the world, conducted a captive-carry flight with a powered Talon-A test vehicle on Sunday (Dec. 3). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Stratolaunch revealed plans for a huge aircraft to launch spacecraft into orbit back in 2011, but the world's largest plane didn't roll out from its hangar until 2017, and then on to its maiden flight ...

Stratolaunch Roc aircraft carrying Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle. With a wingspan that stretches 385 feet, it’s the widest airplane in operation (Stratolaunch) Editor’s note: This story was updated ...

Stratolaunch’s Roc aircraft takes off from Mojave for the next in a series of flight tests off the coast of Vandenberg Space Force Base, attracting attention Saturday from residents in the Lompoc and ...