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 The same company the runs Virgin Music, Virgin Mobile, and Virgin Atlantic Airways, now seeks to start a whole new kind of business. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group plans to start the worlds first space tourism airline, Virgin Galactic. The business tycoon has already invested in a fleet consisting of two types of spaceships and accessory aircraft to provide suborbital spaceflights. (more…)  The X-43 may be described as a hypersonic unmanned aircraft produced as part of NASA’s Hyper-X program. Rather than taking off from a runway, the X-43 relies a winged booster rocket, named the Pegasus. The Pegasus launches from a carrier plane with the X-43 at the tip until it brings the the X-43 to a target speed and altitude. After boosting from the Pegasus, the X-43 propels itself free to even higher speeds as a scramjet using its own engine. The X-43 had been the most successful aircraft in the X-plane series, setting multiple airspeed records (more…)  En route on the mach 4.7 supersonic jet, I flipped open my iTV , which connected me to the most advanced space network, spacecast. The usual news was being broadcast; “NASCOM, the space people have started mining a new mineral on the moon which is almost identical to Uranium; the Americans have come out with yet another version of the unmanned X-67 which maneuvers itself at mach 25 (more…) |
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