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Officials with Virgin Galactic, the company developing the SpaceShipTwo suborbital aircraft, say that the vehicle's first powered flight could occur by the end of this year. If the test is successful, then commercial rides to the edge of space could begin as early as 2013 or 2014.
The suborbital aircraft can r... |
29 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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The CEO and president of private suborbital spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, George Whitesides, announced on January 20 that the WhiteKnightTwo / SpaceShipTwo combo is nearly ready to enter commercial use. The two aircraft will take paying passengers on suborbital joyrides.
The company has taken an innovative ap... |
4 February 2012
05:40 GMT |
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This video released by officials at Virgin Galactic shows the SpaceShipTwo being dropped from its WhiteKnightTwo aircraft carrier for a critical drop test. This is the method through which the spacecraft will separate from its carrier, before it ignites its engines and flies to the edge of space. SpaceShipTwo is the ... |
4 November 2011
06:59 GMT |
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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
07:43 GMT |
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Officials from Virgin Galactic are thinking of using a James Bond movie as inspiration for designing spacesuits to be worn by passengers on their SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. The machines are scheduled to provide paying customers with suborbital joyrides starting in 2013.
The company is currently still developing its v... |
26 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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During the latest test flights of the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft the Virgin Galactic company is developing for suborbital joyrides, the vehicle entered a period of uncontrolled descent, during which time it was literally falling out of the sky. Eventually, the crew regained control of the situation.The spacecraft's... |
18 October 2011
02:46 GMT |
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Officials from private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic announced yesterday, October 13, that the American space agency has just signed a $4.5 million contract for renting several seats on upcoming suborbital flights. The sorties will be flown with the SpaceShipTwo. Virgin and Scaled Composites are currently build... |
14 October 2011
11:08 GMT |
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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
09:01 GMT |
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Officials at Virgin Galactic say that the space tourism company will enter a hiatus of sorts during the summer, as far as testing their spacecraft concept goes. During this break, engineers will get ready to begin the next stage of demo flights, before the vehicle becomes operational.The company is developing the Spa... |
29 July 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Virgin Galactic appears to have indeed built one of the most impressive, private spacecraft ever. Their SpaceShipTwo, and its carrier WhiteKnightTwo, are now completing one successful test flight after another, validating systems and performances ahead of entering active use.
The aircraft duo is designed to take ... |
25 June 2011
03:55 GMT |
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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
10:59 GMT |
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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
05:01 GMT |
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Accompanied by the Virgin America aircraft “My Other Ride Is a Spaceship,” a private spacecraft developed by Virgin Galactic flew over San Francisco, California on Wednesday, April 6. The flight marked the inauguration of the new Terminal 2 facility. Located at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO... |
7 April 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Officials at Virgin Galactic, one of the world's leading private spaceflight companies, announce that their SpaceShipTwo suborbital aircraft managed to successfully complete a new drop and glide test. This is yet another important milestone that Virgin waltzes past, in preparation for beginning commercial space ... |
14 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Engineering teams at private space company Virgin Galactic are currently working very hard on getting their suborbital spacecraft ready to fly commercially, with paying passengers. Though that has not yet materialized, the corporation is already eying orbital flights, but keeps mum about it. The SpaceShipTwo – ... |
30 November 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Officials at Virgin Galactic announced that their SpaceShipTwo suborbital space plane managed to carry out its first successful solo test flight yesterday, October 10.The flight, which saw the aircraft being released by its WhiteKnightTwo carrier, took place above the California-based Mojave Air and Space Port.Though... |
11 October 2010
04:22 GMT |
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British billionaire Sir Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic is on the fast-track towards becoming the first privately-owned corporation to provide suborbital spaceflights on its own ships. Engineers at the company have been testing various spacecraft for many years, but the beginning of a new age in space ... |
21 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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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
04:12 GMT |
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In what witnesses describe as an impressive, out-of-this-world experience, Virgin Galactic unveiled last night its amazing, new spaceliner prototype, named SpaceShipTwo. After about five years in the making, the spacecraft, which is capable of reaching the upper limits of the atmosphere, can now carry six passengers ... |
8 December 2009
02:35 GMT |
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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
04:07 GMT |
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos, of Amazon.com fame, is currently involved in constructing a new spacecraft, which is designed to be capable of routinely flying numerous astronauts to suborbital flights, at very low prices. The Bezos Blue Origin business plan is currently undergoing testings at a private launch site in Texas,... |
24 November 2009
03:36 GMT |
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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
02:53 GMT |
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Virgin Galactic is a space tourist firm that has been trying for quite some time now to make the dream of suborbital space flights possible for the wealthy. It plans on doing so by using a craft known as SpaceShipTwo, which is able to achieve impressive heights for a few minutes, before plunging back into the atmosph... |
1 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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One of the most expected events of the year regarding suborbital space tourism took place yesterday at Scaled Composites in Mojave with the unveiling of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, a jet powered carrier aircraft that will act as a launch pad for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The event signals the... |
29 July 2008
05:03 GMT |
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There are possibly thousands of commercial air flights being carried out every day on Earth, however not even one commercial spaceflight. This is merely because there is no commercial spacecraft available at this moment capable of conducting more than one flight into space each day. To be more accurate, even the spac... |
26 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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The direct descendant of the X Prize winner of 2004 SpaceShipOne has been revealed yesterday at New York, and it seems that the design phase took some unexpected twists. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane will be carried and dropped at altitudes of about 15 kilometers into the Earth's atmosphere wi... |
24 January 2008
06:49 GMT |
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