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Rocket Dungeon: Concept art for Virgin's LauncherOne (updated) (2009-11-06)
ParobolicArc posts a couple of concept drawings for Virgin Galactic's recently announced foray into the world of small satellite launching. The first has a cruise missile look to it and the ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: First free glide of the VSS Enterprise (the first SpaceShipTwo) (2010-10-11)[Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: Virgin Galacitc's SpaceShipTwo First Flight Tests (2011-05-26)SpaceShipTwo underwent a "drop-test" earlier this month from the White Knight aircraft. The goal of the test flights were to test the "feathering" reentry technique in which the ship effectively ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Virgin Galactic to launch satellites (2012-07-11)LauncherOne, Virgin Galactic’s new satellite launching system is poised to enter the new commercial payload sector as an affordable alternative. “Virgin Galactic’s goal is to ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Virgin Galactic's Space Ship 2 makes a 2nd test flight (2013-09-06)[Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Failure of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo resulting in at least 1 fatality (2014-10-31)SS 2 as she was just hours ago. Frame grabs from tracking video. Recovery of casualties. Debris after explosion and ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Virgin Galactic has a new website (2018-02-15)Things have been quiet with Virgin Galactic except for a few glide test. Today in hope of seeing more milestones in the future they launch their new website. Click image below to visit. Advertisements [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: VSS Unity First Rocket Powered Flight (2018-04-06)VSS Unity First Rocket Powered Flight Documentary about flight: Advertisements [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: VSS Unity enters Space (2018-12-13)Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity makes it into Space for the first time going past the Karman line. Advertisements [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: XCOR LYNX Mk.1 Suborbital Launch Vehicle (2008-07-16)This is precisely the sort of thing I want to be building when I get older and augment more resources! XCOR Aerospace is a private aerospace company (apart from government) which is building a ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Astronaut Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger? (2009-02-24)Reportedly, Richard Branson has offered Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger a job at twice the salary of other Virgin pilots. This job offer comes with another option - becoming an astronaut ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: new spaced-out magazine launching soon - UniGalactic (2009-03-01)Via a post on Rocketry Planet : UniGalactic is an online Space Travel Magazine with one simple mission - research and deliver (in either electronic or paper format) Space Travel relevant content ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Big day in the RLV and Space Transport News (2009-06-23)More missile-aneous stuff from Clark . Haven't read them...yet... Asabooster CD004 (pdf) - "a conceptual design for a [VTHL] reusable rocket vehicle able to lift 152 lbs with a total delta ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: A Perfect Time For Budding Aerospace Engineers (2010-02-28)As odd as it might sound, I'm excited about NASA's budget cuts. The more the load is taken off the government agency's shoulders, the more it is placed on the private sector's. Already the ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Orbital + Virgin = CCDev 2 (2010-12-13)Space News reports that Orbital Sciences Corp. is teaming with Virgin Galactic to bid on the the second phase of NASA's CCDev commercial crew transport effort. Orbital is expected to propose ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: YAHP (yet another hodgepodge post) (2011-08-09)A reader provided links to photo essays about the Russian museum of the "NPP Zvezda" aerospace corporation. http://maksimzaitsev.livejournal.com/37521.html ( translated ) http://ru ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: High altitude balloon tourism (2011-08-16)"José Mariano López-Urdiales, the founder of zero2infinity, is offering what he calls the ?near-space? experience of viewing the planet and the space beyond it from 36 km [22 miles] ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Spaceport America officially opens (2011-10-17)According to Richard Branson’s blog , Spaceport America officially opens today. “The first astronauts to join us on Virgin Galactic flights will be there with us, along with our Virgin ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Feed reader stars - TGIF edition (2012-01-20)PWR [Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne] ad zaps SpaceX - RLV and Space Transport News (PWR has a good track record but that alone won't fend off the Falcon 9.) "Britain's Got Talent" could win ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-04-12)NASA Preps Atomic Clock for Deep Space GPS - Space.com - Accurate and stable clocks are central to position (orbit, attitude) control and communications and this will help immensely on both ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-07-12)Boris Katan's HellBoy, set up to fly on 19 E9's NASA Johnson Space Center’s Shuttle II (1988) , Wired Science (7/12, Portree) A Bugatti spaceship from Elysium has crashed into the San ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: Stressful Fun: Random College Updates (2012-09-11)If I thought I spread myself too thin last semester... I had no idea what was coming! Junior year in aerospace engineering is famous for requiring super-human abilities. Below I have summarized in a ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: SpaceShip2's first powered flight (2013-04-29)SS2 hit mach 1.2 on its successful first powered flight! Photos below via SpaceFlightNow . Credit: MARS Scientific/Clay Center Observatory/Virgin Galactic ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Close up of SS2 during successful rocket-powered flight (2013-04-29)Close up of SS2 during successful rocket-powered flight , a photo by Virgin Galactic on Flickr. [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: SpaceShipTwo makes a powered flight (2013-04-30)Yesterday Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo made a powered flight over the Mojave dessert. After being carried to altitude by WhiteKnightTwo it fired up the rocket engines for about 16 seconds ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: First Powered Flight of SpaceShipTwo! (2013-04-30)I got in to work early yesterday because Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic were planning the first powered flight of SpaceShipTwo and I wanted to be there to see it. The flight was a complete ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: The Coolest Picture Of SS2 (2013-04-30)Tail cam view of SS2 during burn. (Credit Virgin Galactic) [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments (2013-06-09)Washington, DC - NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. This latest selection represents ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: A Sad Week for Commercial Space (2014-10-31)First the Antares explosion and now Virgin Galactic SpacehipTwo crashes [Read More]
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