05 December 2016
VSS Unity makes successful first glide flight test
...which two years ago suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup due to a premature brake deployment, causing it to crash in the Mojave desert, California. While the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived with serious injuries, the the co-pilot, Michael Alsbury...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
...anomaly (2015) - on 31 October 2014, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, California, killing co-pilot Michael Alsbury and seriously injuring pilot Peter Siebold. The artwork ‘serious...
05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
...plane ever built – made its debut last week in the Mojave desert. Stratolaunch, an aircraft to dwarf all others, is the ... weather. Stratolaunch was built by Scaled Composites, a Mojave-based aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites...
03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
...] spent nearly four years embedded with the company at its hangar in the Mojave Desert”. In a note, the author himself confirms that he made 16 trips to Mojave and conducted hundreds of taped interviews, assuring us that “Everything in these pages...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... Galactic, began openly speaking about his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed in the Mojave Desert. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, became a world-famous company. Until July 2011, when the Skolkovo space...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... the first time after being released from Virgin Mothership Eve (VMS Eve) on 3 December 2016 in the Mojave Desert. The amount of fuel needed for a flight to orbit using a single-stage vehicle with existing rocket engines...
