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REPLAY! Virgin Galactic 4th Commerical Launch

REPLAY! Virgin Galactic 4th Commerical Launch #VirginGalactic #VMSEve #Galactic04 Date: October 6, 2023 Location : Spaceport America , USA Rocket : SpaceShipTwo Learn more about the mission: ...

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is launching a new space age, where all are invited along for the ride.

Galactic 04

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Tourism

Suborbital Spaceport America Air launch to Suborbital flight

Fourth commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 6, 2023, 4:45 p.m.

SS2 has landed.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 6, 2023, 4:30 p.m.

SS2 released.


LL2 • Oct. 6, 2023, 3:50 p.m.

Livestream has started


SwGustav • Oct. 6, 2023, 2:50 p.m.

Take-off NET 15:40 UTC


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 6, 2023, 1:37 p.m.

Take-off NET 15:00 UTC.


SpaceShipTwo

Family:
Configuration:

The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    18.0 m
  • Diameter
    8.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    9.0 T
  • Thrust
    310.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    SpaceShipTwo
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    SpaceShipTwo
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

VSS Unity


Active Human Rated Crew On-board: 6 Crew Capacity: 8
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: N202VG

VSS Unity, previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and will be used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.

SpaceShipTwo Details

Crew


Kelly Latimer

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Frederick W. Sturckow

Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: Aug. 11, 1961
Age: 64

Beth Moses

Instructor - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Active

Date of Birth: May 30, 1980
Age: 45

Namira Salim

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Ron Rosano

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Trevor Beattie

Passenger - configurations.Country.None - ( VG )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: Dec. 24, 1959
Age: 66

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic

(VG)

Founder: Richard Branson Founded: 2004 Successes: 62 Failures: 5 Pending: 1

Agency Type:

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.

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