SpaceShipTwo
SpaceShipTwo is Virgin Galactic's air-launched, rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane family used for crewed research and private astronaut flights from Spaceport America. The system is carried aloft by a mothership before release, rocket-powered climb, feathered reentry, and runway landing.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwoScaled Composites Model 339
- Family Name
- SpaceShipTwo
- Full Name
- SpaceShipTwo
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spaceplane
Details
- Description
- SpaceShipTwo is Virgin Galactic's air-launched, rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane family used for crewed research and private astronaut flights from Spaceport America. The system is carried aloft by a mothership before release, rocket-powered climb, feathered reentry, and runway landing.
- First Flight Year
- 2,010
- Last Flight Year
- 2,024
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Count
- 1
- Propulsion System
- Role
- main
- Name
- SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity RocketMotorTwo installation
- Notes
- The National Air and Space Museum identifies RocketMotorTwo as the hybrid motor used by VSS Unity on its first spaceflight on December 13, 2018. This configuration is scoped to the VSS Unity/RocketMotorTwo branch and does not generalize the exact motor to SpaceShipTwo earlier HTPB configurations or future motor configurations.
- Spacecraft Specs
- Reusability
- fully_reusable
Links
- Official Url
- https://www.virgingalactic.com/
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo
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- Creation Time
- July 8, 2026 at 12:59:42 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 25, 2026 at 06:33:06 UTC
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