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The U-2 and RQ-4 "Global Hawk" recon plane and Pegasus-rocket can be an excellent couple for launching satellites.



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The U-2 and RQ-4 "Global Hawk" recon plane and Pegasus-rocket can be an excellent couple for launching satellites.

One very good idea for cheap spaceflight is to connect the U-2 Recon plane, and Pegasus rocket. The idea is very simple, and it is that the small Pegasus rocket can be equipped with wings, and it can put on the rack, where is installed the wheels. Then the U-2 recon plane would pull the Pegasus-rocket to the maximum altitude by using the rope, and the technology, what is used in this idea is similar, what is used with the sailplane.

The U-2 plane would pull the Pegasus to the maximum altitude, and then the rope will be released. Then the Pegasus rocket would start the engine, and the idea is that this rocket would have more weight in the tail, and the nose would rise upwards automatically. That effect is important because it avoids the hit to the plane because the U-2 is not so fast moving aircraft as fighters are. And it cannot dive so fast as the fighters can. The rope must be very long, and that can be made by the most modern materials. That makes the launching safer.
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The thing is that the wings would be similar, what is used in the cruise missiles, and they would also allow the gliding. The reason, why the rocket must pull the nose up is avoiding the aircraft. In fact, this mission to pull the Pegasus rocket can also give to the RQ-4 "Global Hawk" drone aircraft. That capacity can be used to launch small size satellites when there is a need for fast overflight operations, what the opponent should not predict, and those overflights might be surprised because they can come from every direction on the Earth. This aircraft- missile combination can give the USAF global ASAT capacity.

In this scenario, the small-size drones, what can fly extreme high altitude would tug the ASAT missiles, what can be actually the Pegasus rockets, Those modified missiles are equipped with the ASAT warheads, and they can release their cargo anywhere on this planet. This would be a very interesting option for the lightweight ASAT weapons, which can hit also against the higher altitude targets than the satellites, what is flying in the LEO (Low Earth Orbiter).

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