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Jun 21, 2024 · SpaceShipOne was a unique design –a three-place, high-altitude space plane, designed for sub-orbital flights to 100 km altitude. The ship converts (via pneumatic-actuated feather) to a stable, high-drag shape for atmospheric entry.
Jun 24, 2024 · Scaled Composites, LLC is a major supplier, along with Cornerstone Research Group, Inc., Brayton Energy, LLC, PC Krause and Associates, and EaglePicher Technologies, LLC. The XRQ-73 aircraft will be a Group 3 UAS weighing approximately 1,250 pounds.
Jun 28, 2024 · DARPA dubs new hybrid-electric X-plane XRG-73. Scaled Composites, Cornerstone Research Group and others are supplying the uncrewed aircraft, which will mature a long-endurance aircraft design. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, Arlington, Va., U.S.) has assigned the designation XRQ-73 to its Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion ...
Jun 25, 2024 · An artist's concept of the Northrop Grumman/Scaled Composites XQR-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-powered long-endurance Class 3 uncrewed reconnaissance aircraft. The inset program patch references the predecessor XQR-72 "Great Horned Owl" project, meant to develop quieting technologies for low-flying UAS.
Jun 25, 2024 · Scaled Composites. Unmanned Aerial System. The XRQ-73 is part of the Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program which aims to develop a novel long endurance unmanned...
Jun 13, 2024 · In 1982 Rutan launched a second company, Scaled Composites, which created research aircraft. SpaceShipOne was developed at Scaled Composites, with significant financial backing from billionaire Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft Corporation. The craft set a new civilian altitude record of 64 km (40 miles) in May 2004.
1 day ago · Scaled Composites was contracted to develop and build the initial prototypes of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, and then TSC began production of the follow-on vehicles beginning in 2008. In 2012, after Northrop Grumman acquired Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic acquired the remaining 30% of The Spaceship Company. Investors
