AstroHawk, to business
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"For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space" by @arstechnica / @StephenClark1 - VG's Unity is too heavy to be profitable. Launches will resume with new lighter Delta Class. https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/for-virgin-galactic-becoming-profitable-means-a-pause-in-flying-to-space/

cosmos4u, to random

Have a look at a webcast (completely unofficial; there is none from Virgin Galactic) of the final flight test before commercial operations may begin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQQ5lxfKGU - the carrier plane has been airborne for 45 minutes now, no information on the planned drop time.

cosmos4u,

As expected the reached an apogee of again only 87.2 km during today's flight: https://www.virgingalactic.com/news/virgin-galactic-completes-successful-spaceflight - shy of the widely accepted lower boundary of space by 13 km (remember that the SpaceShipOne did make it past 100 km repeatedly in 2004 ... a hard condition to win the Ansari X Prize).

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