05 December 2016
VSS Unity makes successful first glide flight test
.... This entails VSS Unity hitching a ride to the dizzying heights required for the test flights underneath WhiteKnightTwo – the companies custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft. Captive carry has the advantage...
January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... scale and the UK’s Skylon at the other. Among the first of the new crop is SpaceShipTwo, carried aloft on a WhiteKnightTwo turbo fan powered aircraft and likely to have marginal environmental impact and be the least problematical from...
01 December 2014
SpaceShipTwo lost
... incorrectly deployed itself within 10 seconds of the rocket engine being ignited, following a drop from the WhiteKnightTwo mother ship at 45,000 ft and accelerating to a speed of over Mach 1. VG is currently working on the second production model...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
... a hitch back in the Mojave Desert in California. After taking off attached to the company’s carrier plane WhiteKnightTwo, VSS Unity rocketed to an altitude of 82 kilometres (51 miles) before cruising back to ground in a gliding descent. The trip...
