Virgin Galactic company is in the shadows of Space X. The company is working with miniature shuttles, what is planned to use for commercial space flights. The miniature shuttles and especially the launching systems like mothership aircraft can take the shuttle to high atmospheric are interesting also military and intelligence operators.
The images are Image I the Virgin Galactic shuttle. Image II The shuttle and its mothership. Image III is X-37B USAF top-secret miniaturized shuttle under the Virgin Galactic mothership. Image IV is the artist's Impression of X-20 Dyna Soar with the Titan III booster. That space plane ever flew in space. But it was the pathfinder for the shuttle orbiter.
So that kind of thing is telling how interested governments are in that kind of technology. There have been speculations that X-37 is only the tip of the iceberg in the top-secret world. In the 1960s Boeing aircraft company made tests with the X-20 Dyna Soar spaceplane. suddenly the project was canceled.
The Dyna Soar planned to flight by using Titan III heavy booster, but officially the X-20 ever flew in orbital missions. There have been speculations about "flatten" or stealth version of that extremely top-secret space shuttle. The lightweight motherships can also be used for replacing the cruise missile carriers, and they can drop cruise missiles from high altitudes. And miniature shuttles can also transform into missiles.
https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-first-spaceport-america-launch-video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar
Image I: https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106886996-1621720889230-Screenshot_2021-05-22_at_201249.png?v=1621720940&w=1600&h=900
Image II:https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/05/18/why-virgin-galactic-bounced-again-today/
Image III:https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36425763
Image IV: Pinterest
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