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The largest plane to fly into space

Stratolaunch, the company of American billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, has news for us. In the Californian desert, in complete peace, they built the largest plane that will fly into space. As befits a billionaire. This huge airship was taken for its first 'walk-through' last Wednesday and it looks, well, megalomaniacal.

Najprej se seznanimo z merami, da si bomo lažje predstavljali, kako veliko zares je. Razpon kril meri 117 metrov, kar je več, kot nogometno igrišče, v višino pa meri 15 meters. Brez goriva tehta slabih 227 ton, z gorivom pa neverjetnih 590 ton. Nekaj več kot 10 Titanikov. Stoji na 28 kolesih in poganja ga 6 engines planes Boeing 747.

Potniki na letalu pa ne bomo ljudje, temveč rakete. Companies Stratolaunch and Orbital ATK sta kot partnerja združili moči in bosta v vesolje pošiljali rakete Pegaus XL, ki lahko v orbito popeljejo manjše satellites. Stratolaunch naj bi rakete ponesel do višine slabih 11.000 metrov, jih spustil, rakete pa bi se od tam izstrelile v orbito.

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Očitno je vesolje prav zares na agendi milijarderjev in prav zanimivo bo spremljati, kako se bodo dogodki odvijali. Morda pa še mi dočakamo izlete na Luno za konec tedna.

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