jamesbideaux t1_j4hwg02 wrote
Reply to comment by alphagusta in The Stratolaunch Roc, the largest aircraft ever flown, has just completed a 6-hour test flight. It aims to be a platform to launch reusable hypersonic craft from an altitude of 10 km by lughnasadh
one of the main issue is that air launching requires a lot of the rocket you are launching to be protection from the different stresses (in terms of direction) of flight.
It might turn out that we can do better but currently airlaunched rockets are inferior to ground launched rockets.
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