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Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is launching a new space age, where all are invited along for the ride.

Galactic 01

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Biology

Suborbital Spaceport America Air launch to Suborbital flight

Research mission for the Italian Air Force, first commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Updates

Nosu • June 29, 2023, 3:45 p.m.

Successful flight and landing of VSS Unity


Nosu • June 29, 2023, 3:30 p.m.

Release of VSS Unity


Nosu • June 29, 2023, 3:22 p.m.

Setting T-0 to estimated drop time


Nosu • June 29, 2023, 3:08 p.m.

Pushing T-0 to account for the delayed livestream start


LL2 • June 29, 2023, 2:52 p.m.

Livestream has started


SpaceShipTwo

Family:
Configuration:

The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    18.0 m
  • Diameter
    8.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    9.0 T
  • Thrust
    310.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    SpaceShipTwo
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    SpaceShipTwo
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

VSS Unity


Active Human Rated Crew On-board: 6 Crew Capacity: 8
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: N202VG

VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.

SpaceShipTwo Details

Crew


Michael Masucci

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Nicola Pecile

Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: March 11, 1973
Age: 51

Colin Bennett

Instructor - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Angelo Landolfi

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( IAF )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Pantaleone Carlucci

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( CNR )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Walter Villadei

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( IAF )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: April 29, 1974
Age: 50

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic

(VG)

Founder: Richard Branson Founded: 2004 Successes: 62 Failures: 5 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.

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Spaceport America


Falcon 9
Success
21 hours, 7 minutes ago
Starlink Group 11-8
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 day, 7 hours ago
Starlink Group 13-1
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Ceres-1
Success
2 days, 2 hours ago
5 satellites
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 5 satellites to sun synchronous orbit: * Yunyao-1 37 to 40 * Jitianxing A-05


Long March 2D
Success
5 days, 8 hours ago
PRSC-EO1
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Optical Earth observation satellite for SUPARCO of Pakistan. Hitchhiking payloads: * DAO-1 * Blue Carbon 1


Starship
Failure
5 days, 14 hours ago
Flight 7
Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Seventh test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.


New Glenn
Success
6 days, 5 hours ago
Maiden Flight
Launch Complex 36A - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Maiden flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle. Will carry the prototype Blue Ring payload tug and payload hoisting platform, consisting of communicat…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Mission 1 & Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience”
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Blue Ghost is a commercial lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace for NASA’s CLPS program. Blue Ghost is designed to bring up to 155kg of payloa…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Transporter 12 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Dedicated rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
Starlink Group 12-4
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Smart Dragon 3
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
10 x CentiSpace-1
Haiyang Spaceport - Sea Launch

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