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"designed to carry up to six passengers on what will be suborbital flights at first." Unless I am mistaken, I don't think there are plans on ever getting Space
by jlgreco 13y ago
"designed to carry up to six passengers on what will be suborbital flights at first."
Unless I am mistaken, I don't think there are plans on ever getting SpaceShipTwo orbital; Mach 1.43 is an order of magnitude away from what you need for LEO. I am guessing they mean that in the future Virgin Galactic will orbit something else.
- ianstallings 13y agoYes the delta-v needed to get to an altitude of 100km is about half of what one needs for LEO as far as I know. So it's probably about ~3-4km/s for SpaceShip One. I'd have to calculate it from 50k feet using some specs to find out for sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
- neurotech1 13y agoSpaceShipThree was* planned for orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipThree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipThree Edit: * was planned for orbit.
- moocowduckquack 13y agofrom your link; "As of 2008, the company has scaled back those plans and articulated a design that would be a point-to-point vehicle traveling outside the atmosphere."