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Old 03-27-2020, 10:42 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
Read the article on it, they were going to suspend a orbital vehicle high above it and run it down a runway at 100 mph to test the orbital vehicle, not the truck. The truck is just holding up a heavy load, and trying to keep itself from messing with the aeroplane.
Seems to me it would have been more cost-effective to just rent some tunnel time, but what do I know?

Then again, the fact that they went bankrupt in 2017 suggests their money-handling skills weren't the best.
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