Virgin Galactic announced yesterday that they have successfully completed a suborbital test flight of the company's VSS Unity spaceplane.
should be a rocket-powered test sometime before the end of the year's second quarter, notwithstanding Virgin Galactic's claim that the data from this test flight will be analyzed over the ensuing weeks. This afternoon, Virgin Galactic said on Twitter that it would utilize future spaceflight flights to “assess the customer experience and ground-based testing” before the company re-opens up spaceflight for commercial service.
“Releasing Unity for a glide flight today is one of the final steps towards commercial spaceline operations,” said Mike Moses, president of Spaceline Missions and Safety at Virgin Galactic, in the press release. “The data from this validation flight will clear the way for our return to space and, ultimately, lead to the launch of commercial service,” he added.
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