The aircraft, from the company Stratolaunch, has been eight years in the making. By 2022, the company hopes to use the twin-fuselage, six-engined, catamaran-style aircraft to launch satellite ...

“Stratolaunch came out of the hangar for fuel testing,” Allen said in a tweet that featured an aerial photo of the plane. More pictures were posted to Stratolaunch’s website.

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The plane took off at 6:58 a.m. and flew for 2½ hours, reaching a top speed of 189 miles per hour and a maximum altitude of 17,000 feet, Stratolaunch Systems Corp. said.

At 385 feet, its wingspan is longer than a football field. And now the giant Stratolaunch — the largest plane ever built and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s project to lift rockets into the ...

Stratolaunch Systems is planning to conduct the first flight of the largest airplane in the world by wingspan sometime this summer, as reported by Space News. At the 34th Space Symposium in ...

The world's largest aircraft by wingspan completed a successful first flight over California's Mojave Desert on Saturday. The gigantic, six-engine aircraft known as Stratolaunch has a 385-foot ...

This week, private spaceflight company Stratolaunch tested out the turbofan engines on its behemoth aircraft for the first time — all six of them. The engines were filled with fuel and allowed ...

Nearly a year after it first emerged, the Stratolaunch, the largest plane ever built, is getting ready for its first flight later this year. The aircraft, which weighs approximately 500,000 pounds ...

The nose gear of Stratolaunch's aircraft briefly left the ground during the latest taxi test of the giant airplane Jan. 9 at Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Credit: Stratolaunch SEATTLE ...

The Stratolaunch is a giant aircraft with a 117m / 386 foot wingspan -- larger than the Spruce Goose or the Saturn V, and nearly half the length of the massive Hindenburg-class airships built ...

Private companies like Stratolaunch are developing tech to regain the edge in the hypersonic arms race with innovations like the Talon-A reusable vehicle.