14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
...After taking off attached to the company’s carrier plane WhiteKnightTwo, VSS Unity rocketed to an altitude of 82 kilometres (51 miles) ...But delays and a fatal crash in 2014 of the VSS Enterprise in which the co-pilot Michael Alsbury died, slowed down...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... for smaller satellites. Virgin Galactic suffered a setback with the 31 October 2014 in-flight loss of the VSS Enterprise, the first of five commercial suborbital “SpaceShip2” spacecraft planned by Virgin Galactic. However, the company continues...
