As co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen, the legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan, Elon Musk, and private team sponsor space on something that people have to be careful -. "Revolution in space transportation "especially if they promise nothing less than
The aim of this ambitious goal is a new company of Allen, Strato Launch System, and a massive new aircraft are designed and built by Scaled Composites, Rutan secure.
If all goes as planned, the size of two 747 (with a wingspan greater than the length of a football field) and will be able to rocket from 120 meters long wear Musk SpaceX built to a height appropriate for the start in orbit.
Strato Launch hoped that launches a "fraction" of the cost of electricity to do, and it intends to eventually send everything from satellites to manned space capsules. As might be expected, but it is still at an early stage. According to Spaceflight Now Strato Launch employs approximately 100 people (it is said he expects a "significant rise"), and complete information about the plane itself remains a bit cloudy (deliberately according to Allen).
The flight tests currently planned for the "2015 period," but with the first scheduled launch a year later.
Moreover, while it is not clear how much Allen wants to invest in the project, he led several other big names to win the project, former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has joined as a member of the Board and Gary Wentz, former chief engineer of NASA is to serve as president and CEO. Head on past the break for a video teaser of what they expected.
