The Virgin Galactic suborbital launch operation is gathering steam as it launches its second passenger flight. The suborbital SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity space plane was carried into the air by the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft Eve from Spaceport America at 1429 GMT on...
Virgin Galactic made the first fully commercial flight of its air-dropped SpaceShipTwo rocket plane VSS Unity on 29 June. The nearly 14 minute long Galactic 01 mission (from drop to landing) flew successfully to the edge of space before landing safely back at the...
Rocket Lab made a the first suborbital launch of its Electron rocket for a paying from Wallops Island, Virginia, USA at 0125 GMT on 18 June 2023. The mission was flown in relative secrecy but it is known to be carrying a payload codenamed DYNAMO-A on a flight called...
While its one-time stablemate Virgin Orbit may have gone bust, Virgin Galactic is determined not to go the same way as it got back into the sub-orbital launch business with a flight on 25 May. The launch was the first in two years after a previous crewed test flight...
South Korean company INNOSPACE has launched a sub-orbital rocket from the Alcântara Launch Center, Brazil. The mission took place at 1752 GMT on 19 March and saw the Hanbit-TLV vehicle fly on a sub-orbital trajectory. The mission was primarily intended to test a...
Blue Origin has noted the failure mechanism which doomed the unmanned flight New Shepard NS-23 suborbital spacecraft. After its lift off at 1401 GMT on 12 September 2022 at T+ 1 minute 5 seconds the New Shepard booster (NS Propulsion Module Tail 3) suffered an...
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