White Knight: December 2008 Archives

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Go through to the extended portion of this video to see video of the take-off and landing

And read more about the maiden flight of SpaceShipTwo's mothership here

Congratulations to the Mojave resident that won Hyperbola's $100 Virgin Galactic video bounty. That will be with you shortly via electronic banking

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Hyperbola has obtained video of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo travelling down the runway during a low speed taxi trial, with pitot tube fitted, at Mojave air and spaceport on Friday 12 December at about 1500h local time (2300h GMT)

Watch the video and read more about what happened with WhiteKnightTwo at Mojave air and space port on 12 December at flightglobal.com/spaceflight or click through to the extended portion of this blog post and see the video there

With the expected first flight of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo mothership occuring in the next seven days Hyperbola is placing a deadline on the video bounty. That deadline will be 24h before Virgin Galactic makes public any video of WK2 moving under its own power

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Watch Virgin Galactic president Will Whitehorn talk about WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo at the 4th Appleton space conference held at the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 4 December

In the video, you can watch in the extended portion of this blog post, you can see Whitehorn talk about having $40 million in the bank, SpaceshipTwo being almost finished, WhiteKnightTwo's high speed taxi runs, Whitehorn's expectations for external investors in late 2009 and up to 400 people asking Virgin Galactic about sending relative's ashes into space

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