Wings longer than a football field.

The strata launch rock is not only the world's biggest airplane by wingspan, but the biggest

all-composite plane ever constructed.

It also just completed another test flight, the second carrying a reusable hypersonic vehicle called

the Tallinn A.

Prior to this flight, I spoke recently with CEO Zachary Krever, as well as Joe

Laurienti, the founder of startup Ersa Major, which is supplying rocket engines as strata

launch looks to take on more business doing more hypersonic testing.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is Manifest Space.

I think let's start at the beginning, and that is a little bit about what each of your companies do,

and then we'll go from there. So maybe Zach, we can start with you.

Great. So Zach Krever, CEO of Strattel Launch. We provide hypersonic flight testing for government and industry customers to demonstrate their hypersonic technologies in the operational environment.

Okay. Joe.

Joe Laureanti, founder of Ursa Major. We provide propulsion systems for space launch hypersonics, missile defense, and we're excited to work with strata launch.

Fantastic. So talk to me a little bit about what this relationship looks like.

Ursa Major is supplying the engines for the plane?

Yes. Yes. So we're building hypersonic vehicles. Joe and the Ursa Major team are providing the engine to power our hypersonic vehicle.

So it's actually a great relationship.

We've been out there.

They come help us, come out to our facility, integrate the engines, help us get a firing on our test stand.

So it's really been working quite well.

It's a perfect example of our business plan too, because we started building engines for space launch, which is, it might not sound like it because they're rocket engines, but it's a simple technical problem. It's been done many times, and a lot of rocket companies today build their own engines for a pretty straightforward mission. But when you're working with hypersonic test beds, you require things like deep throttle capability or air start capability.

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