At a site in California, construction works are already on their way on a new production facility that will assemble Stratolaunch Systems' massive carrier aircraft. The company is building an aircraft/rocket combo similar to what Virgin Galactic is currently using.
The design calls for the creation of one of t... |
24 January 2012
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen pledged some $200 million of his own wealth for founding and funding Stratolaunch Systems, a new commercial space venture that will transport cargo and tourists to low-Earth orbit.
In order to get things off the ground, he partnered with innovative aerospace engineer Burt Rutan and Pa... |
14 December 2011
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United States Air Force pilot Keith Colmer has been selected by Virgin Galactic to become the lead pilot of SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital spacecraft that the company is developing for conducting joyrides at the edge of space.
He is now the first commercial astronaut pilot to be selected for such a position. Virgin p... |
2 November 2011
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In a ceremony held on September 19 at the Mojave Air and Space Port, in California, officials from private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic announced the opening of the company's Final Assembly, Integration and Test Hangar (FAITH).
The new structure will house the installations and personnel needed to cons... |
12 October 2011
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Officials at the private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic are excited to announce the successful completion of the seventh glide test flight of the SpaceShipTwo. This is the machine that the company plans to use to take paying customers on suborbital joyrides high above Earth's surface.The recent test, which ... |
5 May 2011
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Officials at Virgin Galactic are proud to announce that their private spacecraft was recently able to finish a long test flight, which topped off all other such endeavors to date. The space plane is being developed to carry paying passengers to the edge of space, on suborbital joy rides.The new drop tests took place ... |
23 April 2011
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The private company Virgin Galactic, which has recently taken huge strides towards becoming the first entity to provide affordable access to suborbital altitudes, has another reason to be proud. Yesterday, March 22, it conducted the first of a series of test flights, aimed at assessing the performances of the SpaceSh... |
23 March 2010
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Next Monday, Virgin Galactic will unveil its new space plane design. Constructed specifically to deliver paying passengers to suborbital altitudes, at the fringes of outer space, the innovative craft, known as SpaceShipTwo, is bound to make a sensation. The luxurious vehicle will therefore be the base of the company&... |
5 December 2009
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As far back as 2004, SpaceShipOne broke a number of barriers, when it became the first privately built craft able to reach suborbital heights on its own. Built by Mojave, California-based Scaled Composites, the aircraft was able to secure the $10-million Ansari X Prize, after it performed three successful flights, in... |
5 October 2009
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The Virgin Galactic company took a giant leap forward towards its objective – that of carrying tourists in suborbital flights – with the successful testing of the White Knight Two launch platform, an odd-shape airplane that will be the backbone of VG's future fleet. The platform has a double-fuselage... |
22 December 2008
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