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The world’s biggest drone will deliver satellites to space
The Ravn X is part of of Aevum’s autonomous aerial launch system, which the company hopes will become the new standard for commercial satellite delivery.
The Ravn X is part of of Aevum’s autonomous aerial launch system, which the company hopes will become the new standard for commercial satellite delivery.
peter lee
January 30, 2021 at 8:04 pm
Jay Skylus not only is very intelligent, but he’s damn hot!
rml695
January 30, 2021 at 8:05 pm
I’m curious how SpaceX will respond.
John Doe
January 30, 2021 at 10:02 pm
They are not really in competition.
crzywatch
January 30, 2021 at 8:09 pm
Drone delivering the payload seems like an excellent way to reduce the amounts of fuel and energy that are massively wasted during an actual launch of a spaceship 🚀. This is another way to make space traveling a possibility. But this is initial beginning. New international space station seems to be in the future. Refueling at airports?? but the Drone aerodynamics are out of this world. Nice work for the team of engineers and scientists who put it together.
Jonathan Trujillo
January 30, 2021 at 8:37 pm
This is so beyond cool !!! Good job 👍 can’t wait too see it fly congratulations
John Lee
January 30, 2021 at 8:38 pm
Another way for people to weaponize it.
Joe Canis
January 30, 2021 at 9:42 pm
Good luck to him. I hope he is another Elon Musk. We can always benefit from another innovating genius.
John Doe
January 30, 2021 at 10:01 pm
1 day shipping?
buggaboo333
January 30, 2021 at 10:04 pm
There is NOTHING new nor revolutionary here. Rockets were launched from a cargo plane decades ago. Virgin Galactic is doing this too. Paul Allen had the same idea and venture. Yes, this is a drone instead of a piloted plane. I’m always amazed at people making comments who lack such basic knowledge of our recent history as to think this is new. Do people just not read? Do you just accept the world as YouTube serves it up to you? Shoeple.
Tommy Hermansen
January 30, 2021 at 10:18 pm
Great idea, they can already be at mach one/two/three/four by the time of deployment of a rocket which then would be a comparable of a todays second stage to launch the satellites. The thing is to go fast to escape gravity. The sudden upwards move to avoid the rocket blast might be a problem at mach 5 for instance, let the rocket be inside it like a hot dog in a bun?
Louis Y
January 30, 2021 at 10:41 pm
What kind fake name is “Sky lus”?
Alaine I
January 30, 2021 at 10:46 pm
Is this a PSTH buy? 🤔
Eugene S
January 30, 2021 at 10:54 pm
Complete pie in the sky bs. The craft is far too small, it’ll never reach appropriate altitude, and the rocket is also far too small. Countless companies have tried this approach, all have failed, as the gains achieved by using a plane vs a larger first stage are minimal at best, and severely limit the size of the payload.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
January 30, 2021 at 11:01 pm
Ghost recon players just jolted
f581474x
January 30, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Do you think its a good idea to build the rockers into to vehicle and take the whole aircraft into space? And then once the aircraft comes back into the atmosphere you can restart the turbofan engines and land it like normal.
354sd
January 30, 2021 at 11:08 pm
All this marvellous work going on and we never see it on tv.Thanks for posting.
Richard Davis
January 30, 2021 at 11:08 pm
Respect the innovation but it seems money driven
Howard Swing
January 30, 2021 at 11:20 pm
There will never be a shortage of pilots that love to fly air craft to launch satislites however weapons that different situation . That why we have SPACE FORCE😊
Nam
January 30, 2021 at 11:27 pm
Now onto develop a reason to have a satellite in outer space…
M Johnson
January 30, 2021 at 11:37 pm
Awesome! Awesome talent and idea! I wish him nothing but the best!
Rick Hawn
January 30, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Aren’t all unmanned rockets drones? Get real, folks, satellites have been sent by “drone” rockets for decades. A better description would be: A drone recoverable airplane. Not just the simple drone.
centaur1a
January 31, 2021 at 12:27 am
The design looks “almost” like the movie drone from “Deal of the Century” and the F-15 “Eagle”.
Paul T Sjordal
January 31, 2021 at 12:44 am
Good: it’s nice to see drones used for something other than violating our privacy or killing foreigners.
Bad: this puts pilots out of work.
Edgar Gomez
January 31, 2021 at 12:56 am
If the dumbo billionaire at virgin can’t do the same thing yet then this company isn’t even close.
Edgar Gomez
January 31, 2021 at 12:57 am
My dreams are better than this.
Christopher Gurin
January 31, 2021 at 1:05 am
I remember a scheme like this discussed as part of Reagan’s SDI (“Star Wars”) program, launching ASAT weapons via F-15. Don’t know if they ever tested the concept. Nice there’s a non-warlike application, but, we’re humans-we can turn ANYTHING into weapons. Browse kitchen appliances sometime, and imagine an aggressive use for a Cuisinart-probably won’t take more than five minutes.
Marcos Oliveira
January 31, 2021 at 4:36 pm
Sublime execution of the ideia.
k odu
January 31, 2021 at 4:45 pm
Cool
R K
January 31, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Isn’t the wingspan of the MQ4 longer?…
Ashish Bijwe
January 31, 2021 at 4:54 pm
So can I now have my own private satellite in space for adventure planning and to keep eye on the governments around the world
OriginalDigitalsage
January 31, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Only if you can afford to.
James Eze
January 31, 2021 at 4:59 pm
Why not call it a jet without a pilot?, why drone???
maqa kazimov
January 31, 2021 at 5:19 pm
Well Falcon heavy is also remote cntrolled , so technically it is the biggest drone.
sixthday creation
January 31, 2021 at 5:37 pm
nailed it.
D F
January 31, 2021 at 5:42 pm
My question is why we need a dron launcher? Why can’t the space shuttle be the dron, rocket and satellite together. So you take off to high altitude and then from high altitude fire the rocket with the main launch section to space… no trouble of disconnecting and getting the dron back… that seems more efficient than SpaceX… which is firing the rockets from ground and amount of resources used for that seems to be a waste… I may be wrong!!!
Balaji R
January 31, 2021 at 5:55 pm
Holy crap?
bjusticeforever
January 31, 2021 at 6:06 pm
THIS is the kind of people Americans like…people who build things and profit, and make jobs!
NOT people like certain billionaires who make NOTHING and leach off the financial sector!!
Tony Corcini
January 31, 2021 at 6:16 pm
I’m with it if they can make it 100 percent space junk free.
Marvin
January 31, 2021 at 6:40 pm
So now we’re going to litter the space with satellites? Why do we need more junk in space?
Dan M
January 31, 2021 at 7:19 pm
Max q has entered the chat
Iam Dredlamb
January 31, 2021 at 7:34 pm
since ever the Russian took off on rocket the Americans haven’t being able to start up a more affordable simple and natural way to take off to outspace. It is like a curse, but a real good hugemongose Mastodon call NASA rocket industry. Time to simplify, to move away from rockets to fly away! Godspeed
Brandon Walks TO
January 31, 2021 at 7:37 pm
The US seems to be the place to build out new ideas for space craft
Mike T
January 31, 2021 at 7:45 pm
So let’s have a quick reality check:
(1) they’re going to launch a ton of satellites by the end of 2021
(2) the drone hasn’t even flown yet
(3) not even a mention of rocket development
Color me skeptical.
Angel Mujahid
January 31, 2021 at 7:58 pm
The Ceo is a thirst trap. Yes i said it.
imro kwasiba
January 31, 2021 at 8:23 pm
It will just deliver bombs in non caucasius countries.
Lolan
January 31, 2021 at 8:50 pm
I like it but i think he wants to steal my money 😡
Lolan
January 31, 2021 at 8:51 pm
I like it and I dont think this is scammy activity 😍
assassinate241
January 31, 2021 at 9:00 pm
The CEO is cute af 😍
vanekirk
January 31, 2021 at 9:00 pm
Is this a publicly traded company? If not, I want in on the IPO.
Red Dwarf
January 31, 2021 at 10:59 pm
What do we think? Isn’t that your job? How about, does it actually work? Is it better than the competition? You tell us. Who cares what we think.
Shadow 133
January 31, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Name sucks. It won’t work.
Michael Mangold
February 1, 2021 at 12:53 am
“Satellite delivery isn’t exactly exciting tech these days.” Are you kidding me?
Joe Adam
February 1, 2021 at 5:09 pm
All this Tech is against the pursuit of happiness of mankind.
It’s just to launch satellites to control and monitor and invade the privacy rights of people, if not suffocate them as needed with 5G 60ghrtz and convince them they have covid-1984.
Holy Moly
February 1, 2021 at 5:15 pm
doubters are usually loosers……just my observation with todays super smart young people…..this generation does not sit there like the last one and doubt first…they are doers and go get or bust….love it…wish i was 20 again….not 60….lol
Despertamos
February 1, 2021 at 5:31 pm
the ONLY thing that has changed is they got rid of the pilot (it is a plane that uses normal fuel, still uses a rocket, still not 100% recyclable or reusable)…… its where A.I. is taking over a Human Job. whuu whooo , so happy , can’t wait till A.I takes over CNETs Senior Producers roles too
Josh street cambel Cancel
February 1, 2021 at 5:45 pm
Nothing but fakery And Fantasy nothings getting out the firmament show us live footage of anything flying above 73 miles bet you can’t 😂 stop fooling the masses with alla that space garbage
Josh street cambel Cancel
February 1, 2021 at 5:46 pm
There’s no satellites it’s All cables underground nothing but lies they teach the masses
Malcolm Wachira
February 1, 2021 at 5:47 pm
Awesome
Josh street cambel Cancel
February 1, 2021 at 5:48 pm
There’s to many dummys on earth🧠
marlboro9tibike
February 1, 2021 at 5:57 pm
What is that drone made of? Wood?
m Jerome
February 1, 2021 at 6:19 pm
Skynet
Some Old Dude
February 1, 2021 at 6:27 pm
Everyone’s working hard to get to that WALL-E level of satellites, where you can’t get to outer orbit without bumping into 5 or 10 of them.
The world will end, and the only things left to be found: Buy n Large, and Brawndo the thirst mutilator
Duane Moran
February 1, 2021 at 7:03 pm
When are you going to launch astronauts the same way, and supplies, and future space station assembly parts. Seems much more economical than the current method. Use a transporter like Star Trek. Very ingenious.
Thyer Syed
February 1, 2021 at 7:57 pm
That’s same as Launcher one.
Timothy Gillette
February 1, 2021 at 8:05 pm
The animation shows aerospike rocket engines……something that has never powered any vehicle to orbit
Nicholas Nelson
February 1, 2021 at 8:59 pm
Aerospike?
Ram Dev
February 1, 2021 at 10:24 pm
Space .. “prime delivery 😀”
S B
February 1, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Since they didn’t specifically state that they were launching real hardware, I’m assuming all of those satellite launches will be simulated, just like the rest of it. Weirdly, zero mention of the actual rocket technology. Is it even developed?
Klodi Mjerashaj
February 1, 2021 at 11:13 pm
the largest drone, he says
what does a drone do? it flies (IRL).
if I jump I beat this “drone’s” flight time.
These ppl nowadays watch a sci-fi movie and think they worth billions.
Just get to work, build smth and THEN sell it.
Charles White
February 1, 2021 at 11:18 pm
more competition the better, drones are great for unmanned delivery
Idtech Celestial
February 1, 2021 at 11:20 pm
If some American general saw this they put warhead instead of satellite.
Brian Spendlove
February 1, 2021 at 11:31 pm
Man! This is incredible! in the true sense of the word.
Apophis STR
February 1, 2021 at 11:53 pm
“And the company behind it, Gründer Industries.”
Santa Clara Michoacan de ocampo
February 2, 2021 at 12:13 am
Sound like a scam.
Abu Bakker Siddek
February 2, 2021 at 12:35 am
If you are charging a premium.
Most probably you are not going to succeed!
C123B Thunderpig
February 2, 2021 at 12:56 am
This is virtually an exact copy of the piloted German rocket designed in WW2 to bomb America and skip through the atmosphere like the Space Shuttle back to Germany, would be interesting if Germans had taken a patent on it. Von Braun, should have known about it, but was more interested in rockets. There is indeed a Mobius loop to technology.
Chad Wu
February 2, 2021 at 1:26 am
Great idea!
Justin Griffin
February 2, 2021 at 2:53 pm
No testing needed, just like the Vax, moderna has you covered 🤪
michael jackson
February 2, 2021 at 4:07 pm
What kind of Engines does it have
Jjan
February 2, 2021 at 4:56 pm
Unfortunately payload is very, very much limited.. Even if the drone would be modified, it won’t be able to carry bigger loads..
deltahfman
February 2, 2021 at 5:11 pm
Or could the drone just fly around doing the work of the satellite balloons? Nothing can get to space.
tushar gupta
February 2, 2021 at 5:30 pm
For this model why do we even need a drone? Can it not be done with any other kind of plan?
F.B.I.
February 2, 2021 at 5:34 pm
I really think this is a fantastic idea.
Anthony Schueller
February 2, 2021 at 6:07 pm
They could also launch tools, supplies, parts, equipment, for construction of larger objects like large spacecraft, or space stations as well…
MMO Archives
February 2, 2021 at 6:08 pm
this kind of innovation should’ve been thought off decades ago, whoever thought it was a good idea to keep using shuttles for everything scammed the government
Tevel Chavez
February 2, 2021 at 6:12 pm
This can speed up the opening of a new space station.
Lost Kingdom Maharlika
February 2, 2021 at 6:20 pm
i wonder if it can deliver a nuke
mark schuette
February 2, 2021 at 7:01 pm
pipe dream- if want to save the planet/humanity from climate change we have to minimize our carbon emissions- and these high tech “solutions” are extremely high polluters. we need to go back to what we used to call tech- “appropriate technology”!
Edwin Hendricks
February 2, 2021 at 7:37 pm
wow
Chuck Wagon - Chucky Wagon
February 2, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Yeh and thats all its going to do 🙄
NAZMUL HADI
February 2, 2021 at 8:53 pm
This is A $pace-Drone to replace the nasa shutlle-craft transport like Atlantis or Endevour better than a same galaxy vehicles into far-far away universe …. !
Michael Coleman
February 2, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Nope….
Ale Sh
February 2, 2021 at 9:28 pm
Bs but he’s hot
SoA
February 2, 2021 at 9:37 pm
wtf space force wasn’t a meme?
christophero55
February 2, 2021 at 9:46 pm
Looks like a great platform for air launched ballistic missiles like the Russian KH-47M2 Kinzhal.
Daniel T
February 2, 2021 at 10:22 pm
The drone just said satellites from the USA
Stefan Tanner
February 2, 2021 at 10:29 pm
One more Company with a one way Rocket. We need dont need more trash.
Simply be yourself - It helps.
February 2, 2021 at 10:29 pm
The designers name is Skylus. Well he’s doing what he’s born to do.
Jon
February 2, 2021 at 10:58 pm
I don’t like any company leaving debris in space. As more and more companies focusing on space, the number of space garbage is becoming a serious problem. In my opinion all launch stages must be reusable and floating debris in space must be kept to a minimum if we are to secure our future in space.
prasad yalla
February 2, 2021 at 11:13 pm
So the space junk problem is about to get a lot more pressing and serious very soon !!
Nicola Worthington
February 2, 2021 at 11:14 pm
Aircraft orbital launch platforms really puzzle me. This thing looks like it’s substantially smaller than that virgin are doing (which in itself is still only a small sat launch platform, slightly larger payload than rocketlab(?)), so how is this going to be particularly useful? Are the kind of customers who need a rush launch into orbit within 24 hours really going to be the kind of people who want to launch small satellites, or who won’t already have redundancy for that matter?
Dougal Tolan
February 3, 2021 at 12:07 am
What can a 18m wingspan craft expect to do that a jumbo cant. remember we are talking lifting to altitude here.
Julian Mrtns
February 3, 2021 at 6:35 pm
We already have falcon 9 and next starship
Julien Valluy
February 3, 2021 at 7:53 pm
Do you think its going to become a public company anytime soon????
David Neu
February 3, 2021 at 8:12 pm
“Will” “are hoping to”
Paul Westwood
February 3, 2021 at 8:46 pm
The drone and payload looks way to small to even get into space compared to Launcher One with Virgin Orbit, with a maximum 500 kg payload.
Stefan Frisk
February 3, 2021 at 9:10 pm
Another “toy in the skoy”….😅
William Knowles
February 3, 2021 at 9:17 pm
Are they just trying to mimic Skynet now or is this just another coincidence
clenberg D'mello
February 3, 2021 at 9:18 pm
Don’t put nonsense video and fool people, just fool your wife
magno
February 3, 2021 at 9:21 pm
Looks like they can only launch tiny bricks so-called “satellites” into orbit.
Your Royal Highness
February 3, 2021 at 9:32 pm
Ammm. The CEO is HOT 😍
Airistas
February 3, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Please change your camera angle.
Darren
February 3, 2021 at 10:08 pm
Virgin orbit is much better than this
Rush wijenayake
February 3, 2021 at 10:23 pm
Nice background though
Hempage
February 3, 2021 at 10:44 pm
I feel bad for whoever is invested in this.
William Mulreed
February 3, 2021 at 11:09 pm
Because the rocket looks like it uses an aerospike engine, development of the rocket and engine probably won’t go to well if the past attempts of making an aerospike engine are anything to go by
crap sadwitch
February 3, 2021 at 11:16 pm
dropping “satellites” not bombs
Justin Anderson
February 3, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Yea but doesn’t the rocket land? Not reusable?
Maurice Rose
February 3, 2021 at 11:26 pm
…can it deliver food to the hungry on the way…?
HZ HZ
February 3, 2021 at 11:32 pm
Ah, vapor ware
Ring Dave
February 3, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Too much crap in space, in orbit around Earth. STOP.
Aaron Rose
February 3, 2021 at 11:39 pm
Do we really need or want to all be connected?
Erwynn Cepada
February 3, 2021 at 11:40 pm
My opinion. It looks like a PhotoType.
Saint Rei
February 3, 2021 at 11:53 pm
space x will need dis
Harry White
February 4, 2021 at 12:02 am
Cool concept. You should do some updates as this progresses. Thanks
Jim Mooney
February 4, 2021 at 12:22 am
Elon: “Gon’ buy dis!”
Mike DC
February 4, 2021 at 1:11 am
The us military is rubbing their hands on how to weaponize this for war.