Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo
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This article contains information about a scheduled or anticipated future aircraft.
It may contain preliminary or speculative information, and may not reflect the final version of the aircraft.
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| SpaceShipTwo | |
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 Artist's concept of SpaceShipTwo at apogee |
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| Type | spaceplane |
| Manufacturer | Scaled Composites |
| Status | In production (60% complete as of Jan. 2008) |
| Developed from | SpaceShipOne |
SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is a suborbital spaceplane for carrying future space tourists is currently under development by The Spaceship Company, a joint venture between Scaled Composites and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, as part of the Tier 1b program. The Virgin Galactic spaceline plans to operate a fleet of five of these craft in passenger-carrying private spaceflight service starting in late 2009, or early 2010.[1]
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Virgin Galactic: CGI Depiction of SpaceShipTwo Flight Stirs Imagination 01-23-2008 8:43 pm - Virgin Galactic From the related link: "The designs of both the mothership and the new spaceship are absolutely beautiful and surpass any expectations for the future of commercial spaceflight that we had when first registering the name Virgin Galactic in 1999." |
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... announced that through a non-exchange of funds agreement (so Virgin Galactic isn't being paid) the two organisatons would collaborate on scientific research using the spaceline's vehicles WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) and SpaceShipTwo (SS2) ...
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WhiteKnightTwo, which will shuttle SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space, is about to be unveiled in the Mojave desert. I believe that's SpaceShipTwo under the veil. Update: Photos of WhiteKnightTwo below. Actually it's a flight simulator ...
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"Passengers of SpaceShipTwo will experience G forces in both the x (against the chest) and z (from the top of the head) directions". Hmm, typically x is "to side" axis, z is "to front" and y is "to up". So why x is "on chest" in this ...
SpaceShipTwo will give ordinary people the chance to play astronaut for a day. If they have a lot of money, that is. Learn about SpaceShipTwo.
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