SpaceShipTwo
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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo (SS2) continues to inch toward a full suborbital test flight with its third supersonic test carried out Friday morning. The SS2 rocket engine pushed the suborbital spacecraft to an altitude of 71,000 ft (18 km) and a top speed over Mach 1.4.
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) broke its own speed and altitude records on Thursday as it successfully completed its second rocket-powered, supersonic flight.
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo today successfully completed its first powered flight.
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SpaceShipTwo's latest test flight provided quite a spectacle with oxidizer flowing through the craft’s propulsion system and expelled through the nozzle at its rear to produce a contrail across the Mojave Desert sky.
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Virgin Galactic is to SpaceshipTwo (SS2) today, bringing the company another step closer to realizing its goal of becoming the world’s first commercial space line providing private sector access to space.