Virgin Galactic Highlights of 2013 including full duration test firing
Virgin Galactic has posted a video to Youtube including highlights from the development and testing programme of SpaceShipTwo in 2013. The video includes footage of a "full duration" ground test firing...
View ArticleSpaceShipTwo powered test flight on Jan 9?
Rumours suggest that a SpaceShipTwo powered test flight may take place on Jan 9: Three Launches, SpaceShipTwo Flight Test Set for Next Week -- Parabolic Arc
View ArticleSpaceShipTwo third powered flight reaches 71,000ft, Mach 1.4
A third successful powered flight test on 10th Jan by the Virgin Galactic prototype suborbital passenger spaceplane SpaceShipTwo ignited the hybrid motor for 20 seconds, and reached a maximum speed of...
View ArticleNBC guide to Virgin Galactic spaceflight
NBC provides an online interactive guide to a Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceflight:Take a virtual ride on @VirginGalactic's #SpaceShipTwo, thanks to an @NBCNews interactive:...
View ArticleBranson promises commercial SS2 flights this year, and a UAE spaceport soon
Branson is confident that SS2 will start carrying customers on suborbital space tourism flights before the end of the year. “We have 300 engineers beavering away on it,” he said, according to Arabian...
View ArticleIs Richard Branson ready for blast off?
Jon Ronson posts a lengthy review of the current state of Virgin Galactic, and its prospective spaceflight customers:Jon Ronson is ready for blast-off. Is Richard Branson? -- Guardian
View ArticleSpaceShipTwo engine test
Another test firing of an SS2 prototype hybrid motor was carried out on 27 Feb:Another SpaceShipTwo Engine Test in Mojave -- Parabolic Arc
View ArticleVirgin Galactic announces 700th, 701st customers
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twin brothers who were (as portrayed in the film The Social Network) allegedly ripped off by Mark Zuckerberg over the idea for Facebook, have announced that they are the...
View ArticleConstruction of second SpaceShipTwo vehicle underway
The Spaceship Company is making good progress in constructing the second set of WK2 and SS2 flight vehicles.Whitesides: building second set of vehicles now at @TheSpaceshipCo; about 30-35% done on...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic nears approval for SpaceShipTwo launch license
Jeff Foust reported on March 6th that Virgin Galactic was in the "final phases" of gaining approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the award of a commercial launch license for...
View ArticleVirgin Spaceman: Nigel Henbest's suborbital flight
(Source: British Interplanetary Society)Speaker: Nigel HenbestDate: 21 May 2014, 7-8:30 pmVenue: 27/29 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1SZAs Future Astronaut No. 245 with Virgin Galactic,...
View ArticleEmirati to win place on Virgin Galactic space flight; Whitesides Q&A
Aabar Investments announces a competition for a citizen of the UAE to win a flight on Virgin Galactic:Emirati to win place on Virgin Galactic space flight -- Arabian Business Aabar releases a Q&A...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic video: What's it like to work in a spaceship factory?
Space design guru Adam Wells, spaceship builder Joe Brennan, astronaut relations manager Lauren De Niro Pipher, and rocket scientist Marissa Good are interviewed from the Virgin Galactic factory floor...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic moves to polyamide hybrid motor
(Source: Virgin Galactic press release)May 23, 2014 MOJAVE, Calif.– Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline which is owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s aabar...
View ArticleNASA and Virgin Galactic select payloads for first SS2 research flight
(Source: Virgin Galactic press release)MOJAVE, Calif. – June, 3 2014– NASA and Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded spaceline owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s aabar...
View ArticleInside SpaceShipTwo, Serial 2
Rachel Crane of CNN reports on the construction of Virgin Galactic's next suborbital spaceplane, "SpaceShipTwo, Serial 2", currently under construction at The Spaceship Company's plant in Mojave,...
View ArticleSpaceShipTwo named in top ten world-changing inventions of 2014
CNN names Virgin Galactic in its top ten world-changing inventions of 2014:The CNN10 Inventions -- CNN
View ArticleSpaceShipTwo powered flights to restart in next few weeks
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo of USA Today, Richard Branson indicates that SpaceShipTwo powered test flights will shortly restart. The spacecraft last made a powered flight in January. The...
View ArticleLady Gaga to "marry" in space?
From the Daily Star school of quality journalism: Lady Gaga "plans to have a commitment ceremony with actor boyfriend Taylor Kinney, 33, aboard Richard Branson’s maiden Virgin Galactic flight."Going...
View ArticleBranson's first SS2 flight in Feb/March; WK2 visits New Mexico
In an interview on The Late Show with David Letterman, Richard Branson indicates that he expects to be on the first flight of SS2 from New Mexico in Feb or March 2015, a slip of ~3 months from the...
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