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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Tourism

Suborbital Spaceport America Air launch to Suborbital flight

Sixth commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Updates

SwGustav • Jan. 27, 2024, 12:58 a.m.

T-0 accurate to the second


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 26, 2024, 6:08 p.m.

SpaceShipTwo has landed.


Cosmic_Penguin • Jan. 26, 2024, 6:01 p.m.

SpaceShipTwo has been released.


SpaceShipTwo

Family: SpaceShipTwo
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 T
  • Thrust
    310 kN
Family
  • Name
    SpaceShipTwo
  • Family
    SpaceShipTwo
  • 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


Frederick W. Sturckow

Commander - American - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Aug. 11, 1961
Age: 62

Nicola Pecile

Pilot - Italian - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: March 11, 1973
Age: 51

Franz Haider

Passenger - Austrian American - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Lina Borozdina

Passenger - Ukrainian - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Neil Kornswiet

Passenger - USA - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Robie Vaughn

Passenger - USA - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Virgin Galactic

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Founder: Richard Branson Founded: 2004 Successes: 61 Failures: 5 Pending: 1

Agency Type: Private

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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