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  • Stratolaunch Systems Corporation

    The world’s largest aircraft prepares for testing

    by 
    Rob LeFebvre
    Rob LeFebvre
    05.31.2017

    We last heard about the Stratolaunch in August 2015, when Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's company Stratolaunch Systems announced plans for test flights with the massive airplane meant to help launch satellite-bearing rockets more efficiently. Those test flights apparently didn't happen, but Allen did tweet a picture of the huge aircraft coming out of its equally gigantic hangar today for "fuel testing."