Virgin Galactic aims for 400 flights a year with two new ‘motherships’

Virgin Galactic aims for 400 flights a year with two new ‘motherships’

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/virgin-galactic-aims-for-400-flights-a-year-with-two-new-motherships/

Virgin Galactic is gearing up to take more tourists to the edge of space, working with Boeing to build two new “motherships” that will take the rocket-powered spaceplanes to launch altitude. It’s all part of the plan to hit 400 flights a year: every day and twice on Sundays, perhaps.

VG’s approach, which has been performed a few times with test crews and founder Richard Branson himself aboard, has the spacecraft strapped to the belly of a larger, custom aircraft, which gives the former a running start and skips the necessity of rocket acceleration through the densest part of the atmosphere.