SpaceShipTwo
A suborbital spacecraft operated by Virgin Galactic that uses air launch: a carrier aircraft releases it at high altitude, after which it ignites its rocket engine and climbs into suborbital space, giving passengers several minutes of weightlessness. It is the predecessor platform to the Delta class.
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Virgin Galactic passengers ride a SpaceShipTwo-class spacecraft that is carried aloft by a mothership and then released, accelerating via rocket engine to an altitude of about 80 kilometers or more, experiencing several minutes of weightlessness and viewing the curvature of the Earth, then gliding back to land.
The Delta class is Virgin Galactic's iterative upgrade of its existing SpaceShipTwo platform.
SpaceShipTwo uses an air-launch approach: it is carried by the mothership WhiteKnightTwo to an altitude of about 15 kilometers and released, after which the spaceship ignites its rocket engine and climbs to suborbital space at an altitude of about 80–90 kilometers.
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Virgin Galactic passengers ride a SpaceShipTwo-class spacecraft that is carried aloft by a mothership and then released, accelerating via rocket engine to an altitude of about 80 kilometers or more, experiencing several minutes of weightlessness and viewing the curvature of the Earth, then gliding back to land.
50%UnverifiedThe Delta class is Virgin Galactic's iterative upgrade of its existing SpaceShipTwo platform.
50%UnverifiedSpaceShipTwo uses an air-launch approach: it is carried by the mothership WhiteKnightTwo to an altitude of about 15 kilometers and released, after which the spaceship ignites its rocket engine and climbs to suborbital space at an altitude of about 80–90 kilometers.
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