William Brian Binnie

American - (VG)

Retired

Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1953
Age: 73

William Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo

Spaceflight Record

William Brian Binnie flew on four previous launch(es).

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF09

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 19, 2011, noon

Status: Success

Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF10

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 25, 2011, noon

Status: Success

Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF15

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 27, 2011, noon

Status: Success

Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF22

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 11, 2012, noon

Status: Success

Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

Suborbital

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Founder: Richard Branson

Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.

Recent Launches

Falcon 9

Success

1 day ago

NROL-179

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Fourteenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Offi…

Ariane 64

Success

2 days, 20 hours ago

Amazon Leo (LE-03)

Ariane Launch Area 4 - Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, thi…

Falcon 9

Success

3 days, 2 hours ago

BlueBird Block 2 #3-5

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, requi…

Kuaizhou 11

Success

3 days, 5 hours ago

CentiSpace-1 Group 05

Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Note: Unofficial reports indicate there may be 1 or more additional satellites that failed to separate from the upper stage, however this is not offi…

Long March 12

Success

3 days, 6 hours ago

SatNet LEO Group 22

Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…