Earlier this month, Strata Launches giant airplane conducted its first ever captive carry flight

with a fueled hypersonic test vehicle. The flight was the 12th for the company's launch

platform, Brock, and marked a key milestone that brings strata

launch closer to the first powered flight of its Tallinn A.

What we were focused on is ensuring that that test demonstrated that we are getting ready to release our hypersonic

vehicle known as TA1 it's the Talon vehicle and so really very pleased with the

results we're finishing off the data review now and

will determine our final steps to get us to our first powered flight in 2024 and

then moving on and establishing reusable hypersonic capability in this country

something we haven't had since the 60s also in 2024. Strata launch was created

by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011.

It initially developed Rock as an air-launch aircraft to get rockets into orbit.

But following Allen's death, the company was sold in 2019 to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management

and has since shifted focus to hypersonic research. Strata launch is currently

developing the Tallinn A vehicle to fly at Mock 5 or 5 times the speed of sound or greater for testing

purposes for the U.S. Navy and others.

On this episode, Strato Launch CEO Zachary Crever discusses the recent milestone,

the total addressable market for hypersonic testing,

and the acquisition of now-defunct Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747 aircraft.

I'm Morgan Brennan, and this is Manifest Space.

Zach Trevor Strato Launch CEO. Thank you so much for joining me again on Manifest Space. It's great to have you back.

Absolutely. Thanks for having me morning. You've been very busy, especially here in these final weeks of 2023. I want to start with the successful captive carry flight you just recently did for the TA1 test vehicle. How did that go?

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