Starfighters Space Inc. has announced the successful completion of wind tunnel testing for its STARLAUNCH 1 air-launched rocket. The tests, conducted at both subsonic (Mach 0.85) and supersonic (Mach 1.3) speeds, validated clean separation of the STARLAUNCH 1 vehicle from the company’s aircraft platform, with no adverse aerodynamic interactions observed. The results showed strong agreement between computational fluid dynamics simulations and experimental data, confirming the accuracy of their aerodynamic models. These findings have already been presented by the company, and mark a key milestone in the development of STARLAUNCH 1, a sub-orbital vehicle for microgravity missions. Starfighters Space Inc. will proceed with the next phase, involving procurement of instrumented drop test articles for further flight condition evaluations.

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