Recently Stratolaunch LLC announces it has successfully completed a separation release test of the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-0. The flight was the eleventh for the company’s launch platform ...

Traditional magnetic separators, however, present a challenge: they generate a magnetic force that is very high near the side of the vessel closest to the magnet and decreases rapidly with distance.

Stratolaunch releases the TA-0 test vehicle from its Roc airplane. (Stratolaunch Photo / Ethan Wagner) California-based Stratolaunch, the venture created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, ...

Payload fairing halves lying aside a structural test article following a fairing separation test for the Long March 10 series rocket. Credit: CALT BREMEN, Germany — China has taken another step toward ...