SpaceShipTwo

[triage]

Отмена из-за погоды

TheSpaceshipCompany ‏@TheSpaceshipCo
3 мин.3 минуты назад
We were ready to glide today, but Mother Nature had other ideas. Heading home. Still getting useful data. We'll try again soon #SpaceShipTwo

[Max Andriyahov]

Ну, хоть полетал

[Виктор Левашов]

Max Andriyahov пишет:
Ну, хоть полетал

"хоть полетел"...
Коллеги, прошу прощения, снимки точно новые?

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794175695760986112

Hoping to conduct another #SpaceShipTwo test flight today. Tuesday's flight went very well, but high winds prevented gliding VSS Unity

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794182450117124096

Weather looking better today than it did last time around. Currently looking good for flight #SpaceShipTwo

[Анатолий Егоров]

Колёса Белого рыцаря в воздухе)

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794191399985913856

Wheels up! WhiteKnightTwo & #SpaceShipTwo are now in the air.

[Анатолий Егоров]

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794205125803790336

We're excited to glide, but the team wants another look at something, so headed back to land today as mated pair.

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794212135177859072
 

The mated vehicles have landed for the conclusion of today's mission.

[triage]

Хронология за сегодня

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794189819362426881
Virgin Galactic‏@virgingalactic
VSS Unity during pre flight checks. Now taxiing to runway. Will provide real time updates here! #SpaceShipTwo


https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794199129157025793
Today is 3rd ever flight for VSS Unity (216th for WhiteKnightTwo) #SpaceShipTwo


https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794201577200308226
Mission control reports all is going smoothly. If they elect to go forward with release/glide, that should happen in ~10 mins. #SpaceShipTwo

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794205125803790336
We're excited to glide, but the team wants another look at something, so headed back to land today as mated pair. #SpaceShipTwo

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/794212135177859072The mated vehicles have landed for the conclusion of today's mission. We'll be back out again soon! #SpaceShipTwo

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805040432514109440

It's a chilly morning here in Mojave, but we're getting ready for another #SpaceShipTwo test flight. Stay tuned for more updates.  

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805061486192140289

Takeoff--WhiteKnightTwo & #SpaceShipTwo are now in the air for another test. Today is 5th flight for VSS Unity, 218th for WhiteKnightTwo.  

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805074110820728832

Release! VSS Unity has cleanly detached from WhiteKnightTwo, and is flying freely for the first time ever!   

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805076702003011585

VSS Unity has landed. Vehicle and crew are back safe and sound after a successful first glide test flight.  

[triage]

Ну молодцы, в твиттере сейчас только текстовка и приземление издалека ;(

Parabolicarc.com ‏@spacecom  1 мин.1 минуту назад
#SpaceShipTwo

Интересно - месяц прошел, что у них было? 

30 ноября

Virgin Galactic ‏@virgingalactic  30 нояб.

Photo from just minutes ago: #SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo take off for a captive carry test flight. This is the 4th flight of VSS Unity


Virgin Galactic ‏@virgingalactic  30 нояб.

Wheels up! WhiteKnightTwo & #SpaceShipTwo are now in the air for another test. Today is 4th flight for VSS Unity, 217th for WhiteKnightTwo.

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805081639021776896

Pilots for today's flight: in #SpaceShipTwo: Stucky and Mackay. In WhiteKnightTwo: Masucci and Ericson, plus flight test engineer Mosher. 

[Olaf]

VSS Unity glides for the first time, after being released from WhiteKnightTwo (VMS Eve). Taken today. #SpaceShipTwopic.twitter.com/jBDkqgw1pw

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805102251035357184

[Дмитрий З.]

Немного видео выложили сегодняшнего:
https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/805199650584072193

[triage]

Просто картинки из видео на сейчас

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/04/virgin-galactics-space-programme-moves-forward-spaceshiptwo/
SpaceShipTwo CREDIT: KENNETH BROWN/REUTERS

Virgin Galactic ‏@virgingalactic  6 ч.6 часов назадCalifornia, USA
VSS Unity, gliding home. From today's successful test flight. #SpaceShipTwo

Еще фоточки тут http://www.parabolicarc.com/2016/12/03/photos-spaceshiptwo-glide-flight/

[Floppy Disk]

VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo, successfully completed its first glide flight test on 3 December 2016. The flight test lasted 1 hour 20 minute, with VSS Unity in free flight for 10 minutes and achieving a maximum speed of approximately Mach 0.6 while gliding from an altitude of 15 kilometers. Both VSS Unity and the WhiteKnightTwo mothership (VMS Eve) returned safely to ground. 

[triage]

 
Отсюда
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/vss-unitys-first-glide-flight

http://www.virgingalactic.com/update-from-mojave-successful-first-glide-flight-test-for-vss-unity/

December 03, 2016
Update From Mojave: Successful First Glide Flight Test For VSS Unity

Our new spaceship, VSS Unity, has successfully completed its first free flight! Today's important test flight marks the first time that a vehicle built by our sister organization, The Spaceship Company, has flown fully under its own control.

Today, VSS Unity was piloted by Mark Stucky and Dave Mackay, with pilots Mike Masucci and Todd Ericsson as well as flight test engineer Dustin Mosher in WhiteKnightTwo. Over the course of the 1 hour 20 minute flight–particularly the 10 minutes of free flight for SpaceShipTwo–our pilots, mission controllers, and ground crew collected valuable data.

Today's test flight was the fifth flight of VSS Unity (and the 218th flight of WhiteKnightTwo), following several recent .
As referenced earlier, this glide flight was the first of many. We have not yet reached the rocket powered phase of the test flight program—first we need to gather test flight data to confirm our analyses and calculations about how VSS Unity will perform in a wide variety of real-world flight conditions.

As expected, for this first gliding test flight, VSS Unity was flying light and slow, achieving a maximum speed of approximately Mach 0.6 while gliding home from an altitude of 50,000 feet. An initial look at the data as well as feedback from our two pilots indicate that today's flight went extremely well, but we'll take the time to properly and thoroughly analyze the vehicle's performance before clearing the vehicle for our next test. We're looking forward to getting back into the skies as soon as the engineers say we are ready to do so.

Please stay tuned to this site and our social media channels (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn) for more information as our flight testing program progresses.

[Olaf]

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/812045483359158272

Take-off. Today is 6th flight for VSS Unity #SpaceShipTwo, 221st for #WhiteKnightTwo 

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/812055108527656960

Release release release: VSS Unity and WhiteKnightTwo are flying on their own. 2nd glide flight for #SpaceShipTwo 

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/812058543377391616

Smooth landing for VSS Unity. In #SpaceShipTwo: pilots Mackay and Stucky.  

https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/812068317078822913

#WhiteKnightTwo has landed: pilots Sturkow and Pecile, flight test engr Mosher.