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Articles tagged: WhiteKnightTwo

  • Mojave desert, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic, VSS Unity, WhiteKnightTwo 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...

    • Mojave desert
    • SpaceShipTwo
    • Virgin Galactic
    • VSS Unity
    • WhiteKnightTwo
  • British Spaceport, CAA, Mark Godsell, XCOR Lynx February 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...

    • British Spaceport
    • CAA
    • Mark Godsell
    • XCOR Lynx
    Authors: Mark Godsell    
  • 02 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...

  • space tourism, SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic, VSS Enterprise, VSS Unity 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...

    • space tourism
    • SpaceShipTwo
    • Virgin Galactic
    • VSS Enterprise
    • VSS Unity

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