Rocket Lab
A medium-lift two-stage launch vehicle under development by Rocket Lab.
What is Neutron?
The next scheduled starship prototype to be tested.
What is SN15?
A type of warship that serves as a seagoing airbase.
What are aircraft carriers?
A a large, long–range wide-body airliner and cargo aircraft conceptualized to fulfill an airborne carrier role manufactured by Boeing.
What is the Boeing 747?
An entertainment company that popularize the idea and image of an airborne aircraft carrier.
What is Marvel?
The aspect of Neutron which allows it to directly rival SpaceX's Falcon 9.
What is reusability?
The prototype starship which came the closest to completing a successful test by vertically landing.
What is SN10?
The system used by Akron class airships to recover fighters.
What is a trapeze system?
The fighter carried by Akron-class ships.
What was the Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk?
A fictional flying aircraft carrier appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
What is the Helicarrier?
The payload of Neutron.
What is 8000kg?
The last prototype starship tested before SN15.
What is SN11?
The ships of the Akron-class airships.
What was the USS Akron and USS Macon?
One reason why airborne aircraft carriers do not exist today.
Any one of these reasons:
1) Unknown as to its effectiveness in a modern setting.
2) No need given relatively stable global affairs and no major wars.
3) Traditional aircraft carriers are adequate.
The role of the Akron-class airships.
What is reconnaissance and scouting?
The expected date of Neutron launching.
What is 2024?
A fully reusable, two‑stage‑to‑orbit super heavy‑lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX.
What is Starship?
The type of fighter carried by airborne aircraft carriers.
What are parasite/micro fighters?
The type of modern aircraft that would deploy unmanned aerial vehicles.
What are cargo aircraft?
A type of aircraft designed for mid-air refueling.
What are tanker aircraft?
A two-stage partially recoverable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab.
What is Electron?
A partially reusable two-stage-to-orbit medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.
What is Falcon 9?
The branch of the military responsible for the Akron-class airships.
What is the US Navy?
An experimental unmanned aerial vehicle designed by Dynetics.
What is the X-61?
DARPA.
What is the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency?