SpaceShipTwo began to prepare to fly with a jet engine
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The Company Virgin Galactic has reported another successful test of SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. Reusable suborbital ship still had a long way to test before he begins to carry tourists into space, but concluded the test was very important and may be considered a kind of dress rehearsal before the SST will fly using the jet engine.
During the flight, SST separated from White Knight Two, at an altitude of about 12 kilometers, after which the two pilots had tested his system, and then the spaceplane began a managed planning and got to the airport in the Mojave desert.
This time the flight of the VSS Unity took place with a full nitrous tank of oxidizer and a tank of helium. The nozzle of the engine, as before, SST is not established, replacing it with a dummy, which is used as the water tank of 450 liters — so the developers are testing the vehicle with a full load, though a jet engine to run while not going.
Engineers recognize that prior to the flight using a jet engine the vehicle will planirovat a little while, to allow the developer to double-check. It is expected that the flights of the jet will occur every three weeks until the beginning of winter this year. In the next stage of testing in Virgn Galactic hope to achieve outside the earth's atmosphere.
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