Thursday, January 30, 2014

Virgin Galactic's New Rocket

Virgin Galactic, along with its suborbital space tourism business, is also developing the capability to put small satellites into low Earth orbit.

VG successfully test fired the engines of its Newton two-stage rocket recently.  Newtons will be carried aloft by a WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, released, and fire the first stage.  The first flight could be in 2016.

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