Virgin Galactic med B747 som ''LauncherOne''

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Tidligere B747 ''Cosmic Girl'' - G-VWOW hos Virgin Atlantic er nå blitt N744VG hos Virgin Galactic
https://www.planespotters.net/airfra...irgin-Galactic

Boeing 747 -41R 32745 1287 N744VG Virgin Galactic ferried 16mar16 SAT-CNW ex G-VWOW

Providing Affordable, Reliable And Flexible Launch For A New Generation Of Satellites

Governments, companies, and even individuals all around the world are now building incredibly innovative small satellites. Once a team of satellite innovators has invested their time and money perfecting their satellite technology, they don’t want to sit around waiting for a launch date that could be years in the future. The world’s leading satellite inventors deserve a launch vehicle that works the way their satellites work. That’s why LauncherOne is built to support quick, responsive, and affordable cubesat and microsatellite missions.

LauncherOne has been designed from the start to be affordable, reliable, flexible, and responsive. We accomplish those ambitious goals through the way we design the system, the way we build it, and way we operate it. One critically important aspect of our method is the way we launch our system.

Rather than launching from a traditional launch pad at a spaceport, LauncherOne is launched from our dedicated 747-400 carrier aircraft, called Cosmic Girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWeN...ature=youtu.be

http://www.virgingalactic.com/satell...l1-operations/