Modified SpaceShipTwo Makes Pre-powered Glide Test

LOS ANGELES — The Scaled Composites-developed SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane conducted a cold-flow pressurization test of the vehicle’s modified rocket motor system during a glide flight at Mojave, California, on Aug. 28. The glide flight, which followed release from the WhiteKnightTwo (WK2)...

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