Last week, Virgin Galactic's spacecraft conducted an experiment to ignite an accelerator at high speed on a sonar that was recorded by a camera installed on the plane
Last week, Virgin Galactic conducted a successful test for the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. In the experiment, an accelerator rocket was ignited at supersonic speed that helped the spacecraft gain speed before going into space.
The entire experiment was photographed from a unique point of view - a camera installed on the tail of the spaceship and allowed the engineers building it, as well as other Internet surfers, to ride on it and see the view. The company hopes to soon publish photos of the flight from the perspective of the cockpit, to illustrate what the suborbital flight will look like, during which the passengers will rise to a height of over 100 kilometers, stay for about twenty minutes in zero gravity conditions and see the Earth circle below them, and then glide back to the origin base in new mexico
In the flight this time, the spacecraft only reached an altitude of 69 feet - that is, about 21 kilometers, but even at this altitude the sky is already black and the Earth begins to look rounded.
The owner of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson said that the first commercial flights that will fly passengers into space are expected to begin during 2014. By this he hinted at a sharp shortening compared to the time needed until now between the tests and the operational flights which was 5-10 years.
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Perhaps it would be worthwhile to establish a government company, which would at least design spaceships and launchers. Because if there is no budget, perhaps there would be collaborations with countries, commercial companies, or in future privatization.