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Virgin Galactic’s most recent test flight looks pretty dang impressive in a new video
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Virgin Galactic touches the edge of space with Mach 2.9 test flight of SpaceShipTwo
The fourth test flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo took its test pilots to the very edge of space this morning, reaching just over 52 miles of altitude and a maximum speed of Mach 2.9. It’s another exciting leapfrog of the aspiring space tourism company’s previous achievements.
View More Virgin Galactic touches the edge of space with Mach 2.9 test flight of SpaceShipTwoVirgin Galactic flies to the edge of space for 1st time, setting the stage for commercial missions
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And just like that, Virgin Galactic made it to space.
For the first time in the company’s 14-year history, the Richard Branson space outfit has sent one of their suborbital SpaceShipTwo spacecraft to space — at least by their definition.
A test flight on Thursday brought the company’s VSS Unity ship — carrying two co-pilots — 51.3 miles up above Earth, making it the company’s highest flight yet, once confirmed, according to Virgin Galactic.
Some define space as 100 kilometers — or 62 miles — above Earth, but others, use 50 miles as the boundary.
The Thursday flight could pave the way for the company to begin flying their commercial customers to suborbital space sometime in the relatively near future, a huge boon for the company that has faced its fair share of setbacks on the road to spaceflight. Read more…
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Virgin Orbit successfully takes its 747 flying launchpad out for a spin
In the next step on its path to getting its low earth orbit payload launch system up and running, Virgin Orbit successfully took its LauncherOne system out for a spin with an actual rocket attached under its wing. The company’s specially modified 747-400 carried a 70-foot-long rocket as part of a test flight proving that […]
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Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24 year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes, grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the Internet […]
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View More Meet the startups in the latest Alchemist classWatch as an amazed Virgin Galactic pilot touches the edge of space in new video
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Virgin Galactic’s third supersonic test flight hits Mach 2 and 170,000 feet
Virgin Galactic is celebrating the third successful supersonic test flight of VSS Unity, the passenger spacecraft it intends to make available for space tourism in the near future. This flight took the craft higher and faster than ever, stressing the system and providing useful data for this rocket plane’s engineers.
View More Virgin Galactic’s third supersonic test flight hits Mach 2 and 170,000 feetBlue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
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View More Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to spaceVirgin Galactic agrees to launch space flights from Italy
U.S. space venture Virgin Galactic announced it has partnered with two aerospace companies to help bring commercial space launches to Italy. The agreement with Italy’s largest private space company Sitael and Altec, a public-private company owned by the Italian Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space, has been two years in the making. The idea is to […]
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