{"id":906,"date":"2018-08-24T07:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2018-08-24T07:21:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:21:26","slug":"stratolaunch-announces-development-of-new-launch-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/24\/stratolaunch-announces-development-of-new-launch-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratolaunch Announces Development of New Launch Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-subtitle\">\n<p>Spacecraft will be launched from the world\u2019s largest aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Stratolaunch announced Monday the development a new family of launch vehicles to accompany their current air-launch system. Scheduled to begin service in 2020, the new launch vehicles will carry satellites to multiple orbits and inclinations on a single mission, in the hopes of making access to space more convenient, affordable, and routine.<\/p>\n<p>Stratolaunch, also created the launch vehicle, currently the world\u2019s largest aircraft. Flying has covered the development and testing of Stratolaunch since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the delivery systems to enter service will be \u201cPegasus,\u201d in 2020. \u201cMedium Launch Vehicle (MLV)\u201d is currently in development, and is set to make its first flight in 2022. Two more boosters, \u201cMedium Launch Vehicle &#8211; Heavy,\u201d and \u201cSpace Plane,\u201d are also in development with unknown dates for their first flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to share for the first time some details about the development of our own, proprietary Stratolaunch launch vehicles, with which we will offer a flexible launch capability unlike any other,\u201d said Jean Floyd, Chief Executive Officer at Stratolaunch, in the release. \u201cWhatever the payload, whatever the orbit, getting your satellite into space will soon be as easy as booking an airline flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\/\">Flying<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft will be launched from the world\u2019s largest aircraft. Stratolaunch announced Monday the development a new family of launch vehicles to accompany their current air-launch system. Scheduled to begin service in 2020, the new launch vehicles will carry satellites to multiple orbits and inclinations on a single mission, in the hopes of making access to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}