Virgin Galactic has successfully completed a second supersonic test flight of the VSS Unity. This is the second test flight since a fatal accident back in 2014. The spaceship reached a speed of Mach 1.9 and an altitude of over 114,000 feet. All in all it was an uneventful flight and it will hopefully usher in an age where the average person can afford to take a suborbital flight. Nice job! Check out the video.



Once in commercial service, Virgin Galactic’s spaceships are designed to be turned around and flown at a higher frequency than has traditionally been the case for human spaceflight. The flight today brought that vision a little closer, coming less than two months after Unity’s first rocket powered flight. Great credit goes to the engineering and maintenance teams for working through the first flight’s data diligently and efficiently before preparing Unity again for flight.

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