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A comment on Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane. Parent comment

Re:Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane by svantana on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:56AM (#14458470)
> This is very useful if say you want to very quickly and quietly launch something towards another satellite.

Surely you could already do that with Orbital ATK's Pegasus? 1000 lbs is plenty of explosives. It seems to me this is just a bigger version of that.

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Re:Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane by neuronexmachina on Thursday June 01, 2017 @12:43PM (#14461895)
It would be potentially suitable for a larger payload akin to the X-37B. This would be handy if the intent isn't destruction, but rather interference or even retrieval. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
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