Category: richard branson

Virgin Galactic’s last round of SpaceShipTwo tests begins October 22nd

Post author By Randall
Post date September 6, 2020
Categories In gear, News, richard branson, Space, spacecraft, spaceflight, spaceshiptwo, Tech, Virgin Galactic, vss unity

[ad_1] If all goes well, the two tests will be the last before Virgin’s space tourism starts in earnest. It hopes to fly company founder Sir Richard Branson into space sometime in the first quarter of 2021, effectively kicking off the company’s tourist business. Not that you’ll want to rush to the front of the […]

Virgin Orbit plans to send cubesats to Mars as early as 2022

Post author By Randall
Post date October 9, 2019
Categories In cubesat, launcherone, mars, missions, polish, red planet, richard branson, satrevolution, small satellites, smallsat, Space, Tech, tomorrow, universities, virgin orbit

[ad_1] Virgin Orbit is a spinoff of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and is dedicated to low-cost smallsat projects. This new Virgin Orbit endeavor was reportedly inspired by NASA’s recent InSight mission, which successfully sent two cubesats to Mars. Now, the company believes it can send its own similar spacecraft (as light as 110 pounds) into […]