SpaceShipTwo Reaches Mesosphere In 3rd Powered Flight
Credit: Virgin Galactic
SAN FRANCISCO—A pair of Virgin Galactic pilots fired up the hybrid rocket engine on Unity, the leader of a planned fleet of air-launched SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital vehicles, for a third powered flight test on July 26, reaching a speed of Mach 2.47 over California’s Mojave desert. The spaceship’s...
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