• in short Vigin Galactic meets Serenity concept. for having 3 engines: 2 vertical takeoff landing (VTL) engines mechanincs from land to the end of the atmosphere. then the 3rd engine for space travel throught solar pannels or plasma engines (see NASA projects) next gravitational field ( trick of this is we must find a way to create a Gravity chamber that safely regulates gravitational influence then incorporate it on a ship in an reasonable size.
Userto be quite honest the hipe i get on this thing is more on perfecting this into a real spaceship instead. of a 10-30 minute filght that so happens to be a "plane" in space.I got some ideas in the closet but I'm not claiming to be science geek or an astronomer for that matter. and I guess it would be cool to have a world-wide discussion on how we should consturct a realistic, fully functional long-term voyage(say earth-moon to start) spaceship (based on the virgin galactic and not a rocket)
A lot of rich people will buy travels to the space and, therefore, they will destroy the planet. I´m not an enviromentalist, but i think that this proyect have a very bad impact
@lucasjf777 I bet that this doesn't have a worse impact than a flight of standard commercial aircraft to a summer destination and back. From this perspective everybody who travels to a vacation is destroying the Earth.
I believe this is like 200 thousand dollars. So if you want to go on this you should start saving up. And if you don't live in the west coast you would have to fly or drive all the way to new Mexico somewhere. You have to be gates or a pretty rich person to spend 200 k on just a 3 hour space trip when 9/10 of it is just landing or taking off. You only get 5 minutes of practically no gravity. Probably would be a waste of money for an average person like me.
@nerdsneedmoney I wish it would. The only possible way is if it profitable in a differenc industry than tourism. I feel it would have to be resources. Energy most likely
@darkzerk7 well, maybe if we are talking a WEIGHTED average, where an american counts more than a kenyan. Or the average rich person... not the average person. Everything we do in space has to be paid for, and it is expensive. we may have the resources for the average person to jet off into space, but there's no way in hell society will spend it on this luxury.
Cars make society way more productive. But space... nothing within reach but mars
i dont think you understand.. it will not be expensive forever, just as computers, cars etc. are not these days, as technology advances, costs will go down and it will become accessible to normal people
spaceflight used to cost 60 million for tourists 10 years ago, now it costs $200,000
Kind of depressing to know we'll all be dead before real space flight becomes a reality for even the average person. Would love to see and experience it.
I love how they show this awsome video that makes you wanna do this then request you to pay $200,000 to float around in space for four minutes ugh it wud be cool to go to space and all but i dont wanna live in a cardboard box afterwards.
@4535Fairylover wait until it gets cheaper or you get richer :P I am sure in 20-30 years it will not cost any near 200k unless there is a horrible tragedy and it gets shut down like Concorde...
No Virgin Trip to Outer Space would be complete without the Sci-Fi Novel Renpet as you peer through the portal at the stars ....find out more on youtube, under the search: Renpet - 2012 - Science Fiction or Science Fact?
The tropopause is the point where the temperature stops declining with altitude. This is also the point where only 10% of the atmosphere exists above (50,000'). If you notice in the vid. the Knight takes them to 55,000 and drops the SS2 to accelerate and then it lights the candle. The fuel is a liquid rubber based fuel (HTPB) and NO2 (Nitrous Oxide the stuff in the dentists office) to get going. This fuel is used often by amateur rocketry enthusiasts as it has a good ISP for its weight.
The tropopause is the point where the temperature stops declining with altitude. This is also the point where only 10% of the atmosphere exists above (50,000'). If you notice in the vid. the Knight takes them to 55,000 and drops the SS2 to accelerate and then it lights the candle. The fuel is a liquid rubber based fuel (HTPB) and NO2 (Nitrous Oxide the stuff in the dentists office) to get going. This fuel is used often by amateur rocketry enthusiasts as it has a good ISP for its weight.
I noticed the spacecraft hovers over the earth, in the simulator. Will it orbit the other planets in our galaxy, during the trip? I'm especially interested in orbiting the unilluminated side of the moon (new moon). Is this even possible?
It's not an orbiter. It's a suborbital spacecraft so it goes up and comes back down. That doesn't mean that it can't come down in another place that has a suitable (2 mile long) runway. Travel times to other parts of the globe promise to be much shorter than now.
@lambrettist2007 Thanks for replying. Are you suggesting that the unilluminated side of the moon doesn't have any space hooks or even space tethering is not possible?
@marthanyc Spaceship 2 isn't designed to be an orbiter. It is a suborbital spaceplane. It promises, first, a joyride into space and back, and later, suborbital flights to any part of the globe in about 2 hours flight time. That's not to say that Virgin Galactic won't build an orbiter at some later point in time. The only organization that is currently planning for interplanetary spaceflight is NASA.
It doesn't need a heat shield or tiles as it's aerodynamic shape ensures that it "gently re-enters the atmosphere in a controlled manner", according to the designer, Burt Rutan. It doesn't re-enter at the speeds of orbital craft as it never achieves those speeds in the first place.
It must be really comfortable for a regular person...especially that freefall from the space :) Im pretty bold and it gave me chills just looking at that.
Just a few questions about the people in the ship:
Those spacesuits look very tightly and nicely fitted. Do people wear those suits on the journey, and if so how do the sizes and tightness work out? What materials used if the passengers wear these suits?
thats why they call it virgin galactic. Its really a virgin. Theyre still struggling the open the labia to space. I hope we can penetrate to the moon in the near future.
While I grant that this animation is one of the coolest I've seen, it still strikes me as being fairly unrealistic for a couple of reasons.
1) Maybe it's just me, but any reasonable spaceship should be able to enter a sustainable orbit around the Earth. I just don't see SpaceShipTwo as having enough fuel for that.
2)The big thing I thought was re-entry. I feel like any joe can give a tin can enough juice with enough fuel to get in space, but there's no way SpaceShipTwo would survive the friction
Kill the engines youll be weightlessness until the gravity takes you back and hit the atmosphere.
Re-entry is also not a problem. The reason why a orbiter burns trough the atmosphere is because of its speed (17500mph) The spaceshiptwo like I said doesnt reach that speed, more like mach 3 in the worst scenario.
Mach 3 causes absolutely no direct lethal temperatures. Atleast not at 60km altitude.
Once you hit 20km altitude the SS2 should already have slowed down to mach 1.
Okay, I guess I could see that. I realized later that they did say suborbital in multiple places... plus, I think the flight only lasts for about 5 mins (?) so that speed makes more sense. Still, I would love to see a true space orbiter like this.
This would be a fantastic experience and it is getting closer and closer to launch. I would love to go and live the experience. Brandson has an extraordinary vision!
how could they theoretically apply artifical gravity once in orbit or say on course to the moon or mars. so that u could have a real luxury experience like u were on a cruise ship or hang at the bar lol. that and anti grav flight tech nology would be useful.
Why don't we have giant space ships that are assembled in space because their so huge like the one in the movie The Rodger Young - Starship Troopers?we could team up with Russia.
amazing but how does it build up to the 7 miles per second speed to escape gravity? would people not have to be super fit to experience such g forces?
@hargohargo2 I believe you're mistaken. Escape velocity is 7 miles/second. At that speed, you can escape Earth's gravity well. Nothing suborbital or even orbital gets to that speed. SpaceShipTwo doesn't reach 25% of that speed. The G forces involved are not more than what a shuttle launch experiences. Speaking of shuttle, that only reaches 5 miles per second, enough to get you into Low Earth Orbit. You can compare SS2 to flying a radio controlled airplane nearly straight up. It'll fall back in.
@spacevidcast velocity imparts no G-Force at all. Only the acceleration to that speed would create G-force, and accelerating slowly wouldn't cause any ill effects on the passages what so every. Hence launching from an already moving vehicle would impart less G-force than say the space shuttle launch does to get to the same speed. fyi, space shuttle launch is about 3g, race cars pull more Gs
@spacevidcast Does it have a toilet inside? What if the passenger needed to take a dump?
Another thing....during re-entry, is the plane designed strong enough to withstand the re-entry burn. From my understanding, the shuttle is a lot thicker than this plane to withstand any re-entry burn.
@RobertsDigital From what I understand there are different layers to the Earth's atmosphere. The Virgin flight won't go nearly as high as the Space Shuttle so won't need the heat pads around it. It will reenter the Earth's atmosphere much slower than the space shuttle. Look up SpaceshipTwo on Wikipedia.
@Nibinaear if they dont have a toilet in the plane then they are one step behind in technology. Amost all planes have toilets in them. Space journeys may be shorter when going but then, when returning with less or no fuel?
Different levels of atmosphere? No offence but the plane is clearly not built to withstand re-entry burn...my reasons--->> if there was a mistake and the plane happened to end in the outermost atmosphere, will they call russia to send a rocket?.
@gt40f The burn depends on wing loading (weight per square foot) and speed. Because the reentry speed is so low, about 500 mph, the temperatures experienced don't require any sort of thermal protection system, and the air won't be hot enough to create plasma. Temps experienced during reentry are estimated to be only about 500-500 degrees Fahrenheit.
@gt40f It's based off a shuttlecock, or badminton birdie. The feathers of the birdie and spacecraft always keep the right end facing into the wind. It's basically an idiot-proof design. Very safe.
@BritishLad87 Virgin is a British company owned by Sir Richard Branson. But im sure the spaceship was built in the U.S by American engineers.....but with Virgin funding it.
Where does it travel to? The last thing I want to do is land in the same place I took off from. This is more like a very expensive carnival ride. Now if they can get scheduled suborbital flights to Europe or Asia, or scheduled service to an orbiting hotel or the moon, then it would serve some purpose.
@lambrettist2007 thats exactly what it is, dident you ever dream to experence weightlesness in space? for 20.000 its verry afordible for what you get, you would be suprised on how many people would morgage their houses to experence space flight.
Sure, but in those dreams the spaceship actually landed somewhere different than where I started the trip. Until they make these sub-orbital transport that actually goes someplace, then it's a very overpriced carnival ride.
@lambrettist2007 There are already over 400 people in line to fly, and they haven't taken any passengers up yet. They have no baseline of success rate yet, and still these folks are lining up. I'm sure there would be even more if the economy wasn't so bad.
@lambrettist2007 Do you realize that this is space?!?!? You will be going into space, mans final frontier, which only a few select people have been and your wondering about a hotel?!?!?! My faith in our generation is at an ALL time low.
@fail278 Because liquid hydrogen is -473F. It would add a lot of mass and drag to a very efficient design to insulate SpaceShipTwo's liquid hydrogen tank. In fact, SpaceShipTwo would have to be much bigger (and heavier) to carry the volume of LH2. The tradeoff is in favor of the current design.
@spacevidcast fair enough i see your point. but for the actual plane itself that takes the spaceship to a high atatude it has jet engines that surly could run on compressed hydrogen, instead of expensive kerosene. I'm not a environmental activist, i just find it strange how thay say its environmentally friendly. yes it is environmentally friendly comped to a a gigantic rocket, but for its size the last thing i would say is "environmentally friendly".
357,000 miles high? I don't think so. Considering that it only needs to go about 100 miles high to get into space... and considering most aircraft only travel at an altitude of about 4 miles...
@spacevidcast I know.....I check out science channel sometimes on Virgin Galantic.....I've been studing about this "space travel"...won't be long until we see people go into space! Good luck Virgin! :D
@TheNewVideos It aims the craft into the right direction once it gets to progressively denser atmosphere, regardless of its attitude at apogee (the highest part of the flight).
@erzan You hae plenty of time to get back into your seat, and unless the craft flips over (which it's specifically designed to right itself in the extremely unlikely event that it does), you'll have several minutes and probably the aid of an experienced flight attendant to make sure you're safe.
From what I understand, the ship has two pilots, so does that mean the disengaging White Knight Double module will be landed safely on the ground and reused, or does it 'Disintegrate'?
@juliusdaviesd It'll fly back to the ground. As it does, they'll offer some 0g training to the passengers, for when they go to space for longer stays, at say, a space hotel (several years down the road).
Does sub orbital mean if propulsion systems fail, you can`t just float off into space forever ? in a tomb. Thats good. But offer me this free and I would still say NO WAY !! looks too risky.
@tku28 No. In order to go off into space, you have to reach escape velocity That's about 25,000 mph. The shuttle only goes 17,500 mph, fast enough to keep it in earth's gravity, at an altitude between about 100 and 380 miles high, in low earth orbit. SpaceShipTwo doesn't and can't go half that speed, so the saying "what goes up must come down" is true for her. It's physically impossible for the craft to stay in space forever. Worst case scenario would be 10 minutes in space.
what if your fat?????
willtell6 2 days ago
pack the brownies!!
westex245 3 days ago
• in short Vigin Galactic meets Serenity concept. for having 3 engines: 2 vertical takeoff landing (VTL) engines mechanincs from land to the end of the atmosphere. then the 3rd engine for space travel throught solar pannels or plasma engines (see NASA projects) next gravitational field ( trick of this is we must find a way to create a Gravity chamber that safely regulates gravitational influence then incorporate it on a ship in an reasonable size.
Jamahran 1 week ago
Userto be quite honest the hipe i get on this thing is more on perfecting this into a real spaceship instead. of a 10-30 minute filght that so happens to be a "plane" in space.I got some ideas in the closet but I'm not claiming to be science geek or an astronomer for that matter. and I guess it would be cool to have a world-wide discussion on how we should consturct a realistic, fully functional long-term voyage(say earth-moon to start) spaceship (based on the virgin galactic and not a rocket)
Jamahran 1 week ago
apparently william shatner was asked to ride on it but was too scared.
bakhtn 1 week ago
so how long is it from take of to landing?
ItsJessicaT 3 weeks ago
someone thought about the enviromental impact?
A lot of rich people will buy travels to the space and, therefore, they will destroy the planet. I´m not an enviromentalist, but i think that this proyect have a very bad impact
lucasjf777 4 weeks ago
@lucasjf777 please explain how this would have a bad environmental impact
VoltageVII7 4 weeks ago
@lucasjf777 I bet that this doesn't have a worse impact than a flight of standard commercial aircraft to a summer destination and back. From this perspective everybody who travels to a vacation is destroying the Earth.
Viniter24 2 weeks ago
I wish I can be born later. So that space era begins when I'm young.
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moko11222 1 month ago
1) i hope the security will be at it's best!
2) how will i drink my coffee!
3) what if i need a piss??
MilockGAMES24 1 month ago 2
@MilockGAMES24 hahahaha don't worry about that the travel is just 5 minutes .!
MtrNight 1 month ago
I ran on the run way in America
BARRGE50 2 months ago
I bet this is like taking a taxi for Bill Gates
Adam13115511 2 months ago
Jizz in my pants
astropeachexperience 2 months ago
2:19 lol. Got to love that effect. Now if only I had $200,000 to spare...
vidgami46 2 months ago
happy
lwkmkam 2 months ago
i would rather buy a Ferrari than go on this stupid 5 min no gravity shit >.>
cakarote123123 2 months ago
@cakarote123123 Not me. Not me at all.
joshuabil 2 months ago
What is the music name in this video??
DYWx64 2 months ago
I believe this is like 200 thousand dollars. So if you want to go on this you should start saving up. And if you don't live in the west coast you would have to fly or drive all the way to new Mexico somewhere. You have to be gates or a pretty rich person to spend 200 k on just a 3 hour space trip when 9/10 of it is just landing or taking off. You only get 5 minutes of practically no gravity. Probably would be a waste of money for an average person like me.
steelers19981 2 months ago
Woot woot Wait for ME!
lordfreaken 2 months ago
now if only there were virgin galactic hotels
ipodxdude 2 months ago
It'll never become a reality for the average person, get real
cowofthemonth 3 months ago
@cowofthemonth yes it will
nerdsneedmoney 3 months ago
@nerdsneedmoney I wish it would. The only possible way is if it profitable in a differenc industry than tourism. I feel it would have to be resources. Energy most likely
cowofthemonth 3 months ago
@cowofthemonth Helium 3 from the moon could be what youre looking for.
deccno 2 months ago
@cowofthemonth
That's what people said about cars in the 1910's when only a handful of people in the world could afford driving one..
darkzerk7 2 months ago 12
@darkzerk7 well, maybe if we are talking a WEIGHTED average, where an american counts more than a kenyan. Or the average rich person... not the average person. Everything we do in space has to be paid for, and it is expensive. we may have the resources for the average person to jet off into space, but there's no way in hell society will spend it on this luxury.
Cars make society way more productive. But space... nothing within reach but mars
cowofthemonth 2 months ago
@cowofthemonth
i dont think you understand.. it will not be expensive forever, just as computers, cars etc. are not these days, as technology advances, costs will go down and it will become accessible to normal people
spaceflight used to cost 60 million for tourists 10 years ago, now it costs $200,000
yamato99935 2 months ago
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I'm saving up.
BINKIE2000 3 months ago
DON'T U KN MY GUNDAM CAN FLY IN THE SPACE
HANREVENGE 3 months ago
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5:39 is a representation of what happens when a fat person gets on.
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MrRezarf 3 months ago
Kind of depressing to know we'll all be dead before real space flight becomes a reality for even the average person. Would love to see and experience it.
pickmeOMGpickme 3 months ago
Will it take off and land on the same place?? How big is the sub orbit?
RandomDirectors 3 months ago
I want to go, but I don't want to come back.
wojovox 3 months ago 16
@wojovox take a bomb with you...
RandomDirectors 3 months ago
I love how they show this awsome video that makes you wanna do this then request you to pay $200,000 to float around in space for four minutes ugh it wud be cool to go to space and all but i dont wanna live in a cardboard box afterwards.
4535Fairylover 3 months ago
@4535Fairylover wait until it gets cheaper or you get richer :P I am sure in 20-30 years it will not cost any near 200k unless there is a horrible tragedy and it gets shut down like Concorde...
RandomDirectors 3 months ago
forget the prospect of travelling to space, i would do it for the pure excitement of wearing those awesome space suits!
kiss9hug 3 months ago
One thing that everybody can do now is only to dream..
bengo76 4 months ago
Oh, wouldja look at that..
brandnewbysink 4 months ago
Finally, a British origin space project!
NATB100 5 months ago
Ive done this! Amazing experience indeed!
ooizee 5 months ago
No Virgin Trip to Outer Space would be complete without the Sci-Fi Novel Renpet as you peer through the portal at the stars ....find out more on youtube, under the search: Renpet - 2012 - Science Fiction or Science Fact?
rnpwt99 5 months ago
The tropopause is the point where the temperature stops declining with altitude. This is also the point where only 10% of the atmosphere exists above (50,000'). If you notice in the vid. the Knight takes them to 55,000 and drops the SS2 to accelerate and then it lights the candle. The fuel is a liquid rubber based fuel (HTPB) and NO2 (Nitrous Oxide the stuff in the dentists office) to get going. This fuel is used often by amateur rocketry enthusiasts as it has a good ISP for its weight.
johnmresler 5 months ago
The tropopause is the point where the temperature stops declining with altitude. This is also the point where only 10% of the atmosphere exists above (50,000'). If you notice in the vid. the Knight takes them to 55,000 and drops the SS2 to accelerate and then it lights the candle. The fuel is a liquid rubber based fuel (HTPB) and NO2 (Nitrous Oxide the stuff in the dentists office) to get going. This fuel is used often by amateur rocketry enthusiasts as it has a good ISP for its weight.
johnmresler 5 months ago
That was quick! i thought we would be creating spacecrafts in a hundred years from now. this is quite something indeed.
madass21 5 months ago
its a crap
it doesn't fit in type 1 civilization .
it should use planetary energy not from dead animals and plants .
MrDickheadsman 5 months ago
i wish i could afford a ticket. Would be the ride of a life time.
skinnywhop87 5 months ago
I like the idea of it but it just seems that there could be a lot to go wrong with it
Mrcoz2010 5 months ago
The pilot of this ship is one lucky son of a bitch....
TheAmericanCanadian 6 months ago
I noticed the spacecraft hovers over the earth, in the simulator. Will it orbit the other planets in our galaxy, during the trip? I'm especially interested in orbiting the unilluminated side of the moon (new moon). Is this even possible?
marthanyc 6 months ago
@marthanyc
It's not an orbiter. It's a suborbital spacecraft so it goes up and comes back down. That doesn't mean that it can't come down in another place that has a suitable (2 mile long) runway. Travel times to other parts of the globe promise to be much shorter than now.
lambrettist2007 6 months ago
@lambrettist2007 Thanks for replying. Are you suggesting that the unilluminated side of the moon doesn't have any space hooks or even space tethering is not possible?
marthanyc 6 months ago
@marthanyc Spaceship 2 isn't designed to be an orbiter. It is a suborbital spaceplane. It promises, first, a joyride into space and back, and later, suborbital flights to any part of the globe in about 2 hours flight time. That's not to say that Virgin Galactic won't build an orbiter at some later point in time. The only organization that is currently planning for interplanetary spaceflight is NASA.
lambrettist2007 6 months ago
Where is thermo-ceramic tile? =) Balistic's entry into the atmosphere?
Neighbour4mhell 6 months ago
@Neighbour4mhell
It doesn't need a heat shield or tiles as it's aerodynamic shape ensures that it "gently re-enters the atmosphere in a controlled manner", according to the designer, Burt Rutan. It doesn't re-enter at the speeds of orbital craft as it never achieves those speeds in the first place.
lambrettist2007 6 months ago
Gosh Virgin is gonna be that one empirical space company that controls half the galaxy
fighterace0 6 months ago
@fighterace0 galaxy..!lol lets at least reach the closest star,(which needs i guess another milinum to be achived), befor we mention the galaxy
mexus23 6 months ago
It doesn't have a front wheel?
mdusablo 6 months ago
If only :(
Renoisstartled 6 months ago
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That's a lot of money for just a few minutes.
eivissano 7 months ago
It must be really comfortable for a regular person...especially that freefall from the space :) Im pretty bold and it gave me chills just looking at that.
bigtimeestonia 7 months ago
This is the future of space travel!!!
ciscop2000 7 months ago
Whats with the red sneakers? o.O
BuroDanny 7 months ago
What a ride that's going to be. Can't wait.
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Futurecop2012E 7 months ago
Just a few questions about the people in the ship:
Those spacesuits look very tightly and nicely fitted. Do people wear those suits on the journey, and if so how do the sizes and tightness work out? What materials used if the passengers wear these suits?
warriorkittyfan 7 months ago
Wait... What if they have to puke?!
ptuku 8 months ago
i know someone going on this, looks so cool, wish i could go
emprorali 8 months ago
I wish I could go on this...
topcat5665 8 months ago
Will it be playing this music while on the flight?
Tomekwinxs 8 months ago
thats why they call it virgin galactic. Its really a virgin. Theyre still struggling the open the labia to space. I hope we can penetrate to the moon in the near future.
Armigo91 8 months ago
@Armigo91 Good, you didn't said that we would probably explore other 'stars'
ptuku 8 months ago
@ptuku
I didnt say it, cause im not sure we will. What would require me to have said it in the first place?
I really hope we do. Then again, their are billions of species in the universe. Ill fight to achieve things in this life.
If i were ever to spawn on a planet after my life on earth that does handle start travel, ill probably wont even be caught by it,
but i hope it does concerning my love for space and travel in it as a human.
Armigo91 7 months ago
While I grant that this animation is one of the coolest I've seen, it still strikes me as being fairly unrealistic for a couple of reasons.
1) Maybe it's just me, but any reasonable spaceship should be able to enter a sustainable orbit around the Earth. I just don't see SpaceShipTwo as having enough fuel for that.
2)The big thing I thought was re-entry. I feel like any joe can give a tin can enough juice with enough fuel to get in space, but there's no way SpaceShipTwo would survive the friction
Loonybin0 8 months ago
@Loonybin0
Not a single source could have told you that spaceship two reaches orbit. Nobody has ever said that and its obvious that it doesnt.
Spaceship two barely surpasses mach 3 (900-1000meter per second)
And thats the top speed during the full flight.
Spaceship two is suborbital (meaning it can get to orbital altitudes but without the angular velocity basically)
In other words, it only travels up to gain altitude, once passed 60kph altitude theres no air friction, Which means if you
Armigo91 8 months ago
@Loonybin0
Kill the engines youll be weightlessness until the gravity takes you back and hit the atmosphere.
Re-entry is also not a problem. The reason why a orbiter burns trough the atmosphere is because of its speed (17500mph) The spaceshiptwo like I said doesnt reach that speed, more like mach 3 in the worst scenario.
Mach 3 causes absolutely no direct lethal temperatures. Atleast not at 60km altitude.
Once you hit 20km altitude the SS2 should already have slowed down to mach 1.
Armigo91 8 months ago
@Armigo91
Okay, I guess I could see that. I realized later that they did say suborbital in multiple places... plus, I think the flight only lasts for about 5 mins (?) so that speed makes more sense. Still, I would love to see a true space orbiter like this.
...I guess at some point that will be possible.
Loonybin0 7 months ago
Virgin Galactic...GALACTIC...it can't even leave the earth's gravitational field! LOL
spidersliveonearth 8 months ago
This would be a fantastic experience and it is getting closer and closer to launch. I would love to go and live the experience. Brandson has an extraordinary vision!
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LuciCarmen1 8 months ago
Thier helmets remind me od daft punk. Thumbs up if you agree :)
Imjetta7 8 months ago
Is no one else bothered by the blue eye graphic all over the ship? Something about it is troublesome.
Also, is the actual space portion of the trip really only expected to be 5-10 min?
0pine0tron6000 8 months ago
what no complimentary glass of champers??
scomberscombrus 9 months ago
it would cost allot of money for this hotness, it looks so futuristic. :)
imsocoo213 9 months ago
Hm, yes, well i'm booking this for holiday. How much will it be, Sir?
£200,000 per person
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SquareHeads09 9 months ago
This is gonna be so EPIC! Thanks the world for Richard Branson!
psvvac2 9 months ago
This can become the best honeymoon ever.
goodgoodgoodful 9 months ago
mm yeah
pehpartidoecologista 9 months ago
I have booked!
playuppompey01 9 months ago
i thought this was ment to get us to the moon. least that what i heard on the news
martinsbigmouth 9 months ago
I hope I become insanely wealthy so I can fly up in this thing in the not-to-distant future.
AlexWearsHatsArt 9 months ago
1:15 its not a virgin no more! ha
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spamstoper3 10 months ago
this will cause a major disturbance to an already overwhelmed airspace in the US, air traffic control will have nightmares with this
TheCorrado6 10 months ago
@TheCorrado6 It has its own restricted airspace... shared with the US Army and its missile testing ground in White Sands, New Mexico
Skydivingkittens 9 months ago
this will cause a major disturbance to an already overwhelmed airspace in the US
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I would't do this if they paid me to go up in that fragile littel rocket!
seanlyons161 10 months ago
I wouldt do this if they paid me to go up in that fragile littel rocket!
seanlyons161 10 months ago
how could they theoretically apply artifical gravity once in orbit or say on course to the moon or mars. so that u could have a real luxury experience like u were on a cruise ship or hang at the bar lol. that and anti grav flight tech nology would be useful.
mikefan09 10 months ago
beardy you've done it again!
Albear20 10 months ago
dont we have like nuclear engines?
omega4chimp 10 months ago
Why don't we have giant space ships that are assembled in space because their so huge like the one in the movie The Rodger Young - Starship Troopers?we could team up with Russia.
omega4chimp 10 months ago
@omega4chimp probabyl way too expensive and maybe we arent at that level of tech, or the govt just wants to keep that kind of project secret.
mikefan09 10 months ago
i do beleive the persons on the ship are virgins xD
chickensandw1tch 10 months ago
That would sure tickle in my stomach LMAO XD
chickensandw1tch 10 months ago
There sure is alot of Daft Punk fans on that craft.
R33Racer 10 months ago 21
amazing but how does it build up to the 7 miles per second speed to escape gravity? would people not have to be super fit to experience such g forces?
hargohargo2 10 months ago
@hargohargo2 I believe you're mistaken. Escape velocity is 7 miles/second. At that speed, you can escape Earth's gravity well. Nothing suborbital or even orbital gets to that speed. SpaceShipTwo doesn't reach 25% of that speed. The G forces involved are not more than what a shuttle launch experiences. Speaking of shuttle, that only reaches 5 miles per second, enough to get you into Low Earth Orbit. You can compare SS2 to flying a radio controlled airplane nearly straight up. It'll fall back in.
spacevidcast 10 months ago
@spacevidcast velocity imparts no G-Force at all. Only the acceleration to that speed would create G-force, and accelerating slowly wouldn't cause any ill effects on the passages what so every. Hence launching from an already moving vehicle would impart less G-force than say the space shuttle launch does to get to the same speed. fyi, space shuttle launch is about 3g, race cars pull more Gs
nightshift001 9 months ago
@spacevidcast
so then this is no spaceship at all then..
TikiShootah 8 months ago
@spacevidcast Does it have a toilet inside? What if the passenger needed to take a dump?
Another thing....during re-entry, is the plane designed strong enough to withstand the re-entry burn. From my understanding, the shuttle is a lot thicker than this plane to withstand any re-entry burn.
No offence just need to get your clarification.
RobertsDigital 5 months ago
@RobertsDigital From what I understand there are different layers to the Earth's atmosphere. The Virgin flight won't go nearly as high as the Space Shuttle so won't need the heat pads around it. It will reenter the Earth's atmosphere much slower than the space shuttle. Look up SpaceshipTwo on Wikipedia.
I have no idea about toilet arrangements..
Nibinaear 5 months ago
@Nibinaear if they dont have a toilet in the plane then they are one step behind in technology. Amost all planes have toilets in them. Space journeys may be shorter when going but then, when returning with less or no fuel?
Different levels of atmosphere? No offence but the plane is clearly not built to withstand re-entry burn...my reasons--->> if there was a mistake and the plane happened to end in the outermost atmosphere, will they call russia to send a rocket?.
RobertsDigital 5 months ago
2:33 lost in orbit :P
RandomDirectors 3 months ago
what happened to the re-entry burn?
gt40f 10 months ago
@gt40f The burn depends on wing loading (weight per square foot) and speed. Because the reentry speed is so low, about 500 mph, the temperatures experienced don't require any sort of thermal protection system, and the air won't be hot enough to create plasma. Temps experienced during reentry are estimated to be only about 500-500 degrees Fahrenheit.
spacevidcast 10 months ago
@gt40f
There is no need to do a retrograde burn, on a suborbital flight! Let gravity do all the work your not travelling fast enough to get stuck in orbit.
HNMpepper 8 months ago
why do the tails tilt up?
gt40f 10 months ago
@gt40f It's based off a shuttlecock, or badminton birdie. The feathers of the birdie and spacecraft always keep the right end facing into the wind. It's basically an idiot-proof design. Very safe.
spacevidcast 10 months ago 4
@spacevidcast What wind? its in space!
seanlyons161 10 months ago
What Country made this? UK, US?
BritishLad87 10 months ago
@BritishLad87 Virgin is a British company owned by Sir Richard Branson. But im sure the spaceship was built in the U.S by American engineers.....but with Virgin funding it.
gamblemadman 10 months ago
Live up to dream ,o)
rendad2 11 months ago
Where does it travel to? The last thing I want to do is land in the same place I took off from. This is more like a very expensive carnival ride. Now if they can get scheduled suborbital flights to Europe or Asia, or scheduled service to an orbiting hotel or the moon, then it would serve some purpose.
lambrettist2007 11 months ago
@lambrettist2007 thats exactly what it is, dident you ever dream to experence weightlesness in space? for 20.000 its verry afordible for what you get, you would be suprised on how many people would morgage their houses to experence space flight.
Baseshocks 11 months ago
@Baseshocks
Sure, but in those dreams the spaceship actually landed somewhere different than where I started the trip. Until they make these sub-orbital transport that actually goes someplace, then it's a very overpriced carnival ride.
lambrettist2007 10 months ago
@lambrettist2007 There are already over 400 people in line to fly, and they haven't taken any passengers up yet. They have no baseline of success rate yet, and still these folks are lining up. I'm sure there would be even more if the economy wasn't so bad.
spacevidcast 11 months ago
@lambrettist2007 Do you realize that this is space?!?!? You will be going into space, mans final frontier, which only a few select people have been and your wondering about a hotel?!?!?! My faith in our generation is at an ALL time low.
TheFeedCast 10 months ago
would like to have bought a ticket if I didnt loose all my equity in my home and my retirement money Too! lol
1FlyingPilot 11 months ago
oops just puked in my helmet
greenprint666 11 months ago
they say its environmentally friendly so why don't they run it on hydrogen :/
fail278 11 months ago
@fail278 Because liquid hydrogen is -473F. It would add a lot of mass and drag to a very efficient design to insulate SpaceShipTwo's liquid hydrogen tank. In fact, SpaceShipTwo would have to be much bigger (and heavier) to carry the volume of LH2. The tradeoff is in favor of the current design.
spacevidcast 10 months ago 5
@spacevidcast fair enough i see your point. but for the actual plane itself that takes the spaceship to a high atatude it has jet engines that surly could run on compressed hydrogen, instead of expensive kerosene. I'm not a environmental activist, i just find it strange how thay say its environmentally friendly. yes it is environmentally friendly comped to a a gigantic rocket, but for its size the last thing i would say is "environmentally friendly".
fail278 10 months ago
@spacevidcast How the hell would that thing get off mars, if it needed help from another plane just to get out the earth ?
madass21 5 months ago
@madass21 It can't go to Mars. Virgin Galactic's fleet is sub-orbital only
spacevidcast 5 months ago
Even though this is an animation, I have to say 2:22 is pretty awesome.
sachamun 1 year ago
Hmmm, I notice in the animation they keep their helmets on. What if you need to throw up? Haha
JulianShagworthy 1 year ago
Why does the altitude meter say "miles"?
357,000 miles high? I don't think so. Considering that it only needs to go about 100 miles high to get into space... and considering most aircraft only travel at an altitude of about 4 miles...
TheMarkOfTheBeast1 1 year ago
Ive estimated, once Virgin galantic takes it's first wings...It will cost you 200,020 $
That's ALOT of money, lol!
MrKillJoy200 1 year ago
@MrKillJoy200 That also includes training.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
@spacevidcast I know.....I check out science channel sometimes on Virgin Galantic.....I've been studing about this "space travel"...won't be long until we see people go into space! Good luck Virgin! :D
MrKillJoy200 1 year ago
@MrKillJoy200 If I had the money, I would totally do it.
TheInfinite91 1 year ago
@TheInfinite91 I don't mind saving for a decade or two. Now it costs 200.000, but later on it woill be "only" 20.000.
LesPaul2006 11 months ago
@MrKillJoy200 At first, but they plan to lower it at 20.000 in the future. Still, a lot of money.
LesPaul2006 11 months ago
do the passengers get meal on this flight?
UncleBigShot 1 year ago
what is the point of moving the wings to that postion in space?
TheNewVideos 1 year ago
@TheNewVideos It aims the craft into the right direction once it gets to progressively denser atmosphere, regardless of its attitude at apogee (the highest part of the flight).
spacevidcast 1 year ago
When
XxxxSkaterBoiXxxx 1 year ago
I can do that with my older X-Plane version 8.50
jackwolf131 1 year ago
I wish I had that kinda money to go on it
jackwolf131 1 year ago
@jackwolf131 and it works too with my version 8.60 too
jackwolf131 1 year ago
soo it doesnt past the atmosphere completely it doesnt burn in reentry?
humanoid155 1 year ago
great animation. very impressive
mannynewquist 1 year ago
Woops, sorry, didnt read description. Five minutes in space! haha
scraperindustry 1 year ago
How long do you get to stay in space? From the description on the site it sounded like just a few minutes before you return back to earth.
scraperindustry 1 year ago
What is Al-Qaida terrorists hi-jack the space ship and fly it into the lunar rover? JIHAD YEEHAAAW!
webboffin 1 year ago
@webboffin Good luck with that.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
@webboffin or a suicde bomber blows him self up on the moons surface - thats scarry ...:-D
CapitanoGUC 1 year ago
@CapitanoGUC im sure those ideas will become hollywood movies soon
Lsduende1 1 year ago
@webboffin
Impossible there is not enough fuel to get into Low Earth Orbit on this ship, let alone the moon.
HNMpepper 8 months ago
@HNMpepper you failed to appreciate my sense of humour. lol.
webboffin 8 months ago
What happens if you don't strap yourself back down before re-entry? lol.
erzan 1 year ago
@erzan You hae plenty of time to get back into your seat, and unless the craft flips over (which it's specifically designed to right itself in the extremely unlikely event that it does), you'll have several minutes and probably the aid of an experienced flight attendant to make sure you're safe.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
From what I understand, the ship has two pilots, so does that mean the disengaging White Knight Double module will be landed safely on the ground and reused, or does it 'Disintegrate'?
juliusdaviesd 1 year ago
@juliusdaviesd It'll fly back to the ground. As it does, they'll offer some 0g training to the passengers, for when they go to space for longer stays, at say, a space hotel (several years down the road).
spacevidcast 1 year ago
the reply bit doesn't work for me sorry : (
okay, i will rephrase, overwhelming
Jay4P 1 year ago
Does sub orbital mean if propulsion systems fail, you can`t just float off into space forever ? in a tomb. Thats good. But offer me this free and I would still say NO WAY !! looks too risky.
tku28 1 year ago
@tku28 No. In order to go off into space, you have to reach escape velocity That's about 25,000 mph. The shuttle only goes 17,500 mph, fast enough to keep it in earth's gravity, at an altitude between about 100 and 380 miles high, in low earth orbit. SpaceShipTwo doesn't and can't go half that speed, so the saying "what goes up must come down" is true for her. It's physically impossible for the craft to stay in space forever. Worst case scenario would be 10 minutes in space.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
scary...
Jay4P 1 year ago
@Jay4P What's to be scared of? It's no more dangerous than crossing a busy street.
spacevidcast 1 year ago
the era of govt space race is over. the era of the private space race is just begun, and the british/american 'scaled composites' is leading the way!
crusaderpat 1 year ago
what is this song??????
indianaperry1 1 year ago