Virgin Galactic has successfully tested its first rocket-powered spacecraft, VSS Unity. The SpaceShipTwo launched Unity at an altitude that allows the spacecraft to fire its engines for up to 30 seconds to take it to one and a half times the speed of sound. today’s showed that the company is back on the track to be a viable space delivery system. It was the first powered test of Unity since the in-flight loss of Enterprise in October 2014. This is important because if you look back through history, there have been many instances where rockets were used as weapons or even as weapons.
Virgin Galactic has successfully tested its first rocket-powered spacecraft, VSS Unity. The SpaceShipTwo launched Unity at an altitude that allows the spacecraft to fire its engines for up to 30 seconds to take it to one and a half times the speed of sound. It was the first powered test of Unity since the in-flight loss of Enterprise in October 2014. This is important because if you look back through history, there have been many instances where rockets were used as weapons or even as weapons.