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El jueves @virgingalactic@twitter.com volverá a lanzar su avión espacial #SpaceshipTwo.

Esta vez llevarán a bordo un grupo de militares italianos.

Thursday's almost-spaceflight of the #SpaceShipTwo in a 1-minute video from Virgin Galactic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Icv0v8uLk

As expected the #SpaceShipTwo reached an apogee of again only 87.2 km during today's flight: https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/1661781544451858433 - shy of the widely accepted lower boundary of space by 13 km (remember that the SpaceShipOne *did* make it past 100 km repeatedly in 2004 ... a hard condition to win the Ansari X Prize).

As expected the #SpaceShipTwo reached only an apogee of again only 87.2 km during today's flight: https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/1661781544451858433 - shy of the widely accepted lower boundary of space by 13 km (remember that the SpaceShipOne *did* make it past 100 km repeatedly in 2004 ... a hard condition to win the Ansari X Prize).

Have a look at a webcast (completely unofficial; there is none from Virgin Galactic) of the final #SpaceShipTwo flight test before commercial operations may begin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQQ5lxfKGU - the carrier plane has been airborne for 45 minutes now, no information on the planned drop time.

VSS Unity preparing for first powered flight since Branson’s trip in 2021
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/unity-25-flight/

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El SpaceShipTwo de @virgingalactic@twitter.com vuelve a volar casi dos años después.

Tras un parón por una investigación de la FAA y alguna revisión, el #SpaceShipTwo realizó un vuelo no propulsado.

El paso siguiente antes de iniciar las operaciones comerciales será un vuelo propulsado.

"After nearly two years, #VirginGalactic’s space plane returns to the sky" by @ArsTechnica / @SciGuySpace - Glide test flight for #SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity is expected to lead to a powered🚀 test flight soon if tests went well. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/after-nearly-two-years-virgin-galactics-space-plane-returns-to-the-sky/ #NewSpace #aviation #avgeek

Popular Mechanics wrote in 1928 about the visions of Fritz von Opel, head of the world's first rocket program, and the #future of #hypersonic planes and #rocket travel —both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Almost 100 years later, #Elon #Musk is developing rockets that travel to other continents in minutes and rocket planes like #Virgin Galactic's #SpaceShipTwo is nearly ready for launch. What seemed like a dream a century ago, #history is becoming #reality...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a33797064/rocket-plane-history/