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It flew its final test flight (that is, final flight with only Virgin Galactic personnel onboard), Unity 25, on 25 May 2023. It flew its first operational flight (that is, flight carrying passengers that were not Virgin Galactic employees), Galactic 01, on 29 June 2023. It flew its last flight, Galactic 07, on 8 June 2024, after which it was ...
Galactic 03 Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic: Galactic 03: Virgin Galactic: Suborbital Crewed spaceflight: 8 September 15:35: Successful Apogee: 88.6 km (55.1 mi). 27 September 21:10 [179] UGM-133 Trident II: DASO-32: USS Louisiana, Western Range: United States Navy: United States Navy: Suborbital Missile test: 27 September: Successful 6 ...
Taking a leap to the edge of space will be possible before the end of June
Galactic 06 Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic: Galactic 06: Virgin Galactic: Suborbital Crewed spaceflight: 26 January 17:56: Successful Apogee: 88.8 km (55.2 mi). 30 January [230] UGM-133 Trident II: HMS Vengeance, ETR: Royal Navy: Royal Navy: Suborbital Missile test: 30 January: Launch failure Second consecutive failure of a UK-launched ...
Virgin Galactic rolled out its newest spaceship Tuesday as the company looks to resume test flights in the coming months at its headquarters in the New Mexico desert. Company officials said it ...
Nov. 8—Virgin Galactic announced Wednesday it would be scaling back and then pausing flights to space next year from Spaceport America and that the company instead will funnel resources into ...
As Virgin Galactic finalizes plans for founder Richard Branson to join five others on a test flight to the edge of space on July 11, the British billionaire said his wife may be nervous about the ...
The FAA grounded Virgin Galactic's space planes before allowing a resumption of flights after some changes to procedures including reserving a larger volume of airspace. [80] On 14 October 2021, Virgin Galactic announced that an upgrade program for Unity and Eve would begin, delaying future commercial flights to mid 2022. This followed material ...