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Jul 11, 2021
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joelvandyne
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He has a sister company called virgin orbit doing small sat launches using
essentially the same system except the carrier aircraft is a modified 747 and it boosts a more conventional rocket instead of a spaceplane,
They have successfully delivered customer payloads to orbit on two flights now.
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Congratulations to Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic on their successful
joelvandyne
7/11/21 10:54am
skip to 1:04 for the good stuff.... so crazy/awesome
HarlemCoug
7/11/21 11:21am
hmm...earth looks flat from those shots.
Zak
7/11/21 11:49am
RE: hmm...earth looks flat from those shots.
P-Widdy
7/11/21 12:59pm
I guess I don’t understand their end goal here. They get up and fly around and
boorad
7/11/21 11:53am
Just tourism. Rich people pay to become "astronauts"
Yiowa
7/11/21 12:16pm
I think the main purpose for Branson is to build capability and get tourism involved in space. I don’t think this
CDV
7/11/21 12:22pm
He has a sister company called virgin orbit doing small sat launches using
joelvandyne
7/11/21 12:30pm
Including a BYU satellite, by the way. Which may or may not have failed
Yiowa
7/11/21 3:04pm
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