Billionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has launched a new company that will launch payloads into space from a monster aircraft. Allen’s set up a new company, Stratolaunch Systems, for this project. He has revived his relationship with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to further his plans. Allen and Rutan first teamed up on SpaceShipOne, a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. Stratolaunch Systems expects to launch its first flight in five years’ time.
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Paul Allen Shoots for Low Orbit
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 20, 2011 03:20 PMBillionaire Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has launched a new company that will launch payloads into space from a monster aircraft. Allen’s set up a new company, Stratolaunch Systems, for this project. He has revived his relationship with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to further his plans. Allen and Rutan first teamed up on SpaceShipOne, a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. Stratolaunch Systems expects to launch its first flight in five years’ time.