White Knight 2 and Responsive Space

Coverage of the White Knight Two rollout in Mojave, California, yesterday naturally focused on commercial suborbital flights, Virgin Galactic and Sir Richard Branson, who deflects limelight towards himself in much the same way as a space-time singularity. Let's look at it another way, though. Northrop Grumman, long associated with sometimes-spooky military space programs, has just rolled out the...