Talon-A

Reusable uncrewed hypersonic testbed carried aloft by Stratolaunch's Roc aircraft, used to fly customer technologies in hypersonic conditions.

1. Mar 30, 2020UnveiledConfirmed

   Stratolaunch unveils Talon-A hypersonic vehicle

   Stratolaunch announced Talon-A, a rebranded version of the Hyper-A concept first shown in 2018 under that earlier name. The first physical test vehicle (TA-0) was shown in May 2022.

2. Dec 2024MilestoneConfirmed

   First recoverable hypersonic flight

   Flew above Mach 5 over the Pacific and landed at Vandenberg SFB, for the Test Resource Management Center's MACH-TB project.

3. Mar 2025MilestoneConfirmed

   Second recoverable hypersonic flight

   Second Mach 5+ flight of a recovered Talon-A, showing the vehicle can be reused.

The latest 10 milestones. Solid entries are confirmed, outlined reported, dashed estimated or still to come; dotted italic entries are speculative. Dates show only the precision the sources give.