Virgin Galactic's suborbital vehicle makes its first powered ascent on April 29, 2013. Exceeding Mach 1, but not (yet) trying for 'space' altitude, the test was deemed successful by the shipbuilder Scaled Composites. Discover more about this here: http://goo.gl/jx0ik
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's company Virgin Galactic has successfully performed the first test flight of the engine in its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle. From the New Mexico spaceport ship was lifted by an airplane and then released and activated your engine. At an altitude of 14 kilometers reached by the aircraft carrier, once freed, rocket propellant ship accelerated at supersonic speed up to 1,470 kilometers per hour. The unit was raised several miles and not out of the stratosphere, something reserved for a second release. Free flight lasted only ten minutes. After the two pilots aboard managed to land in a safe in a track located in the Mojave Desert (California, USA). At 1500 GMT ended the test. "For the first time we were able to test all key system components, fully assembled and flight," said British billionaire Richard Branson, founder and sponsor of the project. In your opinion, is "a realistic goal" make the first full flight later this year. To raise the edge of space, as the project includes commercial, subsequent flights should be much longer. The SpaceShipTwo will reach hundred km altitude, the International Aeronautical Federation has called Karman line (from where space starts). More than 500 people from different countries of the world have already reserved their places aboard the ship Virgin Galactic suborbital. Each cosmic future tourists have deposited $ 200,000 for its short flight into space and still do not know if that will be the final price of the same. MORE INFORMATION:http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/vie .. . Subscribe to "ActualidadRT"!http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c ... follow us Live:http://actualidad.rt.com/mas/envivo/ RT IN SPANISH: FROM RUSSIA WITH INFORMATION
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's company Virgin Galactic has successfully performed the first test flight of the engine in its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle. From the New Mexico spaceport ship was lifted by an airplane and then released and activated your engine. At an altitude of 14 kilometers reached by the aircraft carrier, once freed, rocket propellant ship accelerated at supersonic speed up to 1,470 kilometers per hour. The unit was raised several miles and not out of the stratosphere, something reserved for a second release. Free flight lasted only ten minutes. After the two pilots aboard managed to land in a safe in a track located in the Mojave Desert (California, USA). At 1500 GMT ended the test. "For the first time we were able to test all key system components, fully assembled and flight," said British billionaire Richard Branson, founder and sponsor of the project. In your opinion, is "a realistic goal" make the first full flight later this year. To raise the edge of space, as the project includes commercial, subsequent flights should be much longer. The SpaceShipTwo will reach hundred km altitude, the International Aeronautical Federation has called Karman line (from where space starts). More than 500 people from different countries of the world have already reserved their places aboard the ship Virgin Galactic suborbital. Each cosmic future tourists have deposited $ 200,000 for its short flight into space and still do not know if that will be the final price of the same. MORE INFORMATION:http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/vie .. . Subscribe to "ActualidadRT"!http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c ... follow us Live:http://actualidad.rt.com/mas/envivo/ RT IN SPANISH: FROM RUSSIA WITH INFORMATION
