One More Orbit Breaks Polar Circumnavigation Speed Record

Credit: G650ER: Gulfstream
One More Orbit, a multinational attempt to simultaneously break the speed record for the fastest circumnavigation of the Earth via both poles, succeeded July 11, returning to Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility after 46 hr., 39 min. and 38 sec. The One More Orbit mission paid homage to the...
Kirby Harrison

Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain.

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