Apeiron departs Arizona factory for Spaceport America
2 Oct 28 · 14d ago · 6 articles · 1 source · development 2 of 2
Apeiron left Virgin Galactic's Mesa, Arizona Spaceship Factory on a captive-carry flight attached to launch vehicle Eve, heading to Spaceport America in New Mexico, where engineers plan to complete avionics software validation before flight tests begin.
Michael Colglazier Chief Executive Officer of Virgin GalacticVirgin Galactic Commercial spaceflight company
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first by Albuquerque Journal, 14d ago · also Yahoo, Virgin Galactic, Simply Wall St, The Verge, Space, KOB 4 +2
8 more headlines
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- Virgin Galactic (SPCE) Brings Apeiron To Spaceport America For Flight Test Preparations Simply Wall St · 14d ago
- Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Apeiron Arrives Home to Spaceport America Virgin Galactic · 14d ago
- Here’s Virgin Galactic’s new Apeiron spaceship The Verge · 14d ago
- Virgin Galactic is finally revealing its new Delta-class spaceship this week Space · 14d ago
- New Virgin Galactic spaceship arrives at Spaceport America KOB 4 · 13d ago
- Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship “Apeiron” heads to Spaceport America Aviation Photography Digest · 12d ago
- Virgin Galactic unveils new spaceship Apeiron, targets commercial spaceflight return in 2027 Fox Business · 9d ago
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So, the underlying story is that Virgin Galactic is a publicly traded company. There's really no way the company could possibly be financially successful but they continue to survive in this "Wile E. Coyote waiting for gravity to kick in" space as long as they can keep the hype train running. They've been around over 20 years, they had roughly one…
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https://www. europesays.com/us/1153856/ Watch Virgin Galactic’s new ‘Delta-class’ space plane take to the skies for the 1st time (video) # Science # Space # UnitedStates # UnitedStates # US
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They are also planning to fly suborbital science payloads, and there have been non-private/Government-sponsored astronauts as well (such as the Galactic-01 mission on VSS Unity that had three Italian crew members from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy). But the majority of customers are private astronauts/space tourists…
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Yeah, the promise was that developing suborbital tourism would provide the funding to develop orbital capabilities. They have now spent around $3 billion dollars and not only haven't developed orbital capabilities, they don't even have operational suborbital tourism, or any plausible way to ever turn a profit with the suborbital vehicle they're…
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This was called out as a likely problem way back in the X-Prize days. The vehicle they made was very innovative but it seemed like a technological and operational dead end. There are too many weird compromises that are strongly limiting. As time has gone on that pronouncement has only seemed more true.
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This is cool and all, but we have SOOOOOOOO many other important matters in the US and the world to deal with... like a country rapidly falling apart and genocides and illegal wars and the lack of healthcare and AI data centers sucking up very vital water supplies, etc.
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Not acording to several independent tech. https://gizmodo.com/richard-branson-unveils-a-shiny-new-spaceplane-for-the-ultra-rich-to-almost-reach-space-2000832346 But we will see this in 2027 maybe they have found extra thrust in those engines.
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Blahdy-fuckin'-blah. If we wait for everything to be perfect, we'll never make any progress.
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Virgin Galactic's annual proof-of-life post, now with a fresh coat of aerospace paint.
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