https://wordlesstech.com/a-rocket-drone-airplane-could-launch-satellites-every-3-hours/ The future today in our amazing world Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordlesstech.com/a-rocket-drone-airplane-could-launch-satellites-every-3-hours/#comment-7183 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:49:47 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=151649#comment-7183 Don’t we ever have to worry about how much space junk is out there

]]> https://wordlesstech.com/a-rocket-drone-airplane-could-launch-satellites-every-3-hours/#comment-7182 Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:01:56 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=151649#comment-7182 The Ravn reminds one of the old X-1 rocket airplane, the one Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time with. It had 4 separate rocket engines in the back end which were lit off one at a time, each building on the thrust of the one(s) preceding it until the aircraft broke the sound barrier. Pretty ingenious that this idea reappeared for the quick launch of small satellites.

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