NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Suborbital
Success

Galactic-07

Launch Time
Sat Jun 08, 2024 15:26 UTC

Final commercial flight of VSS Unity.

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Rocket

SpaceShipTwo
Image Credit: Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic
Status: Retired
Payload to LEO: 0 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 1
Strap-ons: 0

Vehicles

Spaceport America

VSS Unity

Flight #17
134 day turnaround

Mission Details

Galactic 07

The Galactic 07 mission will be Virgin Galactic's eleventh manned spaceflight and SpaceShipTwo's seventh commercial mission.

The commercial crew on this mission is composed of a researcher affiliated with Axiom Space, two private Americans, and a private Italian. The Virgin Galactic crew on Unity will be Commander Nicola Pecile and pilot Jameel Janjua.

The ‘Galactic 07’ autonomous rack-mounted research payloads will include a Purdue University experiment designed to study propellant slosh in fuel tanks of maneuvering spacecraft, as well as a UC Berkeley payload testing a new type of 3D printing.

Suborbital

Location

VMS Eve, Spaceport America, New Mexico, USA

Stats

SpaceShipTwo

21st mission
2nd mission of 2024
19th successful mission
11th consecutive successful mission