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SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne after its flight into space, June 2004.
Role Spaceplane
Manufacturer Scaled Composites
Designer Burt Rutan
First flight 20 May 2003 (2003-05-20)
Retired 4 October 2004 (2004-10-04)
Primary user Mojave Aerospace Ventures
Number built 1
Developed into SpaceShipTwo
Career
Preserved at National Air and Space Museum
SpaceShipTwo
SpaceShipTwo (central fuselage) carried under its twin fuselage mother ship, White Knight Two.
Role Passenger spaceplane
National origin United States
Manufacturer Scaled Composites (1st aircraft)
The Spaceship Company
First flight 10 October 2010 (first glide flight)
29 April 2013 (first powered flight)
13 December 2018 (first spaceflight)
Primary user Virgin Galactic
Number built 2
Developed from Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
Developed into The Spaceship Company SpaceShip III
VSS Enterprise (N339SS)
VSS Enterprise, the first SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, attached to its carrier aircraft WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve
Type Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo
Manufacturer Scaled Composites
Construction number 1
Registration N339SS
First flight 10 October 2010 (crewed gliding flight)

29 April 2013 (powered flight)

Owners and operators Virgin Galactic
Status Destroyed
Fate Crashed
31 October 2014
VSS Unity
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unity rollout, 19 February 2016, FAITH hangar, Mojave, California
Type Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo
Manufacturer The Spaceship Company
Construction number 2
Registration N202VG[1]
First flight
  • 8 September 2016[2]
    (captive carry flight)
  • 3 December 2016
    (glide flight)
  • 5 April 2018
    (powered flight)
  • 13 December 2018
    (suborbital spaceflight)
Owners and operators Virgin Galactic
SpaceShip III
Role Suborbital air-launched passenger rocket-spaceplane
National origin United States
Manufacturer The Spaceship Company
Design group Virgin Galactic
Introduction 2021
Status Under development
Primary user Virgin Galactic
Produced since 2021
Number built 1
Developed from SpaceShipTwo

The following is a list of Virgin Galactic launches since 2003.

  1. ^ Irene Klotz (5 November 2014). "New spaceship restoring hope after Virgin Galactic crash". SpaceDaily. Reuters. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Update from Mojave: VSS Unity's First Flight Test Completed – Virgin Galactic". virgingalactic.com. 9 September 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

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