Stratolaunch gets contract to provide rapid-turnaround hypersonic flight testing to MDA

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded a research contract to Stratolaunch for rapid-turnaround hypersonic flight testing.


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The company will use its Talon-A hypersonic vehicles to act as a threat-representative and threat-replicating target.

Talon-A testing will commence in 2022 and government and commercial customers can procure its services in 2023.

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