A safiyar ranar Asabar, jirgin da ya fi girma a duniya, Stratolaunch, ya yi tashinsa na farko. Na'urar mai nauyin kusan ton 227 da fikafikan mita 117, ta tashi ne da misalin karfe 17:00 na safe agogon Moscow daga tashar jiragen ruwan Mojave Air and Space Port da ke California na kasar Amurka. Jirgin na farko ya dauki kusan sa'o'i biyu da rabi kuma ya kare da sauka cikin nasara da misalin karfe 19:30 agogon Moscow.
Kaddamar da wannan jirgi na zuwa ne watanni uku kacal bayan da kamfanin Stratolaunch Systems, wanda kamfanin Scaled Composites ya kera jirgin, ya kori ma’aikata sama da 50 tare da daina kokarin kera nasa rokoki. Canjin tsare-tsaren ya samo asali ne sakamakon mutuwar wanda ya kafa Microsoft Paul Allen, wanda ya kafa Stratolaunch Systems a cikin 2011.
Jirgin sama mafi girma a duniya yana tashi! @Stratolaunch @NASASpaceflight #stratolaunch pic.twitter.com/jmLs3mpztn
- Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) Afrilu 13, 2019
Tare da fuselage biyu, Stratolaunch an ƙera shi don tashi sama da tsayin daka har zuwa mita 10, inda zai iya sakin rokoki na sararin samaniya waɗanda za su iya amfani da nasu injin don shiga sararin samaniya. Stratolaunch Systems yana da aƙalla abokin ciniki ɗaya, Orbital ATK (yanzu yanki na Northrop Grumman), wanda ke shirin yin amfani da Stratolaunch don aika rokar Pegasus XL zuwa sararin samaniya.
Dutsen ya sauka! Ina taya kowa murna a @Stratolaunch! @NASASpaceflight #stratolaunch pic.twitter.com/g8RwZyVbvA
- Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) Afrilu 13, 2019
Kafin kaddamar da jirgin na yau, jirgin ya yi wasu gwaje-gwaje da dama a cikin shekaru da dama da suka gabata, ciki har da tashinsa na farko daga hangar da gwajin injin a shekarar 2017, da kuma gwaje-gwaje da dama a kan titin Mojave a cikin sauri daban-daban a baya. shekaru biyu.
source: 3dnews.ru