Articles about vulcan aerospace

Stratolaunch rebuilds team for the world’s biggest plane after Paul Allen’s death

Stratolaunch is hiring — nearly a year after the death of its billionaire backer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and five… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture puts monster plane through first taxi test

That’s one more not-so-small step for Stratolaunch’s giant airplane: The space venture’s founder, software billionaire Paul Allen, is showing off… Read More

Image: Stratolaunch with Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rockets

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Aerospace is now Stratolaunch, with a redesigned website

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s space venture is rebranding itself and updating its website as it prepares to begin flight tests… Read More

Billionaire Paul Allen hopes his ‘ginormous’ Stratolaunch plane will fly this year

The world’s biggest airplane is staying on track to take to the air for the first time by the end of… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch teams up (again) with Orbital ATK on air-launched rockets

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems has renewed its partnership with Orbital ATK on a platform that will make use… Read More

Internal email: Paul Allen’s top space exec Chuck Beames leaving Vulcan Aerospace

Aerospace veteran Chuck Beames is leaving his post as president of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s spaceflight company, Vulcan Aerospace. Word… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to space

MOJAVE, Calif. – When you walk into the place where Seattle software billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems is building the world’s biggest airplane,… Read More

Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more

When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More

Lawmakers geek out over Washington state’s rising space industry

Washington state legislators got an introduction to the state’s space industry today at Seattle’s Museum of Flight – and voiced amazement at… Read More

Work continues on Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch plane, but rocket plans are still under wraps

The world’s largest airplane is taking shape for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Aerospace venture, but it’s not yet clear what… Read More

NTSB’s SpaceShipTwo findings put more pressure on FAA in commercial space

The recommendations coming out of a federal investigation of last October’s fatal SpaceShipTwo breakup are likely to add to the challenges… Read More

Paul Allen launches Vulcan Aerospace to make commercial space travel cheaper, accessible

Paul Allen wants to make commercial space travel more convenient and less expensive, and today he launched Vulcan Aerospace to… Read More