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The Stratolaunch team performed successful high-speed taxi testing at the Mojave Air & Space Port on January 9, 2019. During the three-part test series, the team achieved a maximum speed of 119 knots with nose gear off of the ground.

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity soared to 51.4 miles (82.7 kilometers) above Earth on Dec. 13, 2018. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/42716-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-unity-reaches-space.html Credit: Virgin Galactic / Mash mix: Space.com

The pilots of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity reached an altitude of 82.7km this morning, which is high enough for the FAA to award them commercial astronaut wings.

Vijay Shah, Stress and Structural Engineer at Reaction Engines, speaks to David McClelland at New Scientist Live 2018. The SABRE stands for Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine. It's a new class of propulsion and is designed to unlock the future of space access and hypersonic flight. A versatile, hybrid air-breathing rocket engine that can power an aircraft from a standing start to over five times the speed of sound for hypersonic flight in the atmosphere, and over 25 times the speed of sound for space access. With its wide range of operation and scalability, the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) represents a defining moment in powered flight

Stratolaunch has announced that their carrier plane, the largest ever built with a wingspan of 385 ft. (117 m), will have many vehicles to carry to launch altitude - including a space plane. -- Full Story: https://www.space.com/41548-stratolaunch-rocket-family-space-plane-revealed.html Credit: Space.com / footage & animation courtesy: Stratolaunch / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

Jessi Hempel, Wired senior writer, joins the 'Squawk Box' team to discuss Paul Allen's newest 385-foot airplane.

Reaction Engines is at the Farnborough Airshow to talk about the air-breathing Sabre engine that will have the capability to go from a standing start to suborbit. Guy Norris is a Senior Editor for Aviation Week, based in Los Angeles. Before joining Aviation Week in 2007, Guy was with Flight International, first as technical editor based in the U.K. and most recently as U.S. West Coast editor. Before joining Flight, he was London correspondent for Interavia, part of Jane's Information Group. Mark Thomas has been Chief Executive Officer of Reaction Engines Limited since May 2015. In this role he is leading development of the SABRE engine concept, a new class of aerospace propulsion system for hypersonic and space access applications, and building a successful technology business. During his first two and a half years Mark has grown the company from 65 to over 150 employees, secured investments from BAE Systems, the UK Government and DARPA, and expanded operations in the UK and US. Before joining Reaction Engines, Mark graduated from Cambridge University with an Engineering degree and spent over 25 years working in the Defence and Civil Aerospace businesses of Rolls-Royce plc. During this time he led a number of key programmes for Rolls-Royce, working closely with customers and partners worldwide. Notable roles included Chief Development Engineer for the EJ200 (Typhoon) engine, Chief Engineer of multiple military and civil engine programmes Technical Director of the Eurojet Turbo GmbH consortium based in Munich, and Chief Engineer, Civil Aerospace Technology and Future Programmes. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

[Space Tourism] Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity (VSS Unity) has successfully conducted her second powered test flight on 29 May 2018. On this flight VSS Unity's motor burned for 31 seconds propelling the spacecraft to a speed of Mach 1.9 and an altitude of 114,500 ft. Video edited by: Go To Space Footage Courtesy: Virgin Galactic Video Song: Easier to Fade (feat. Madi Larson) - A Himitsu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d432TRZEeYw https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Outro Music : HeroicMonk - Can't Kill Me https://soundcloud.com/heroicmonk - YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/GotospaceOrg - Twitter : https://twitter.com/GoToSpace_GTS - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/GoToSpace/ - Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+GotospaceOrg

The aircraft development team performed regression testing at the Mojave Air & Space Port on February 24-25, 2018. Ground speeds ranged from 10-40 knots during the test series.

In 2012, construction began on Stratolaunch's hangar at the Mojave Air & Space Port. By spring of 2013, our massive 103,257 sq. ft site was complete.

China sets its sights on a reusable space plane in 2020. Not a lot is known about their program yet, but the details are enticing. Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut brings us more! === CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION === Twitter.com/TMRO Facebook.com/TMROTV YouTube.com/TMRO Reddit.com/r/tmro Twitch.tv/TMRO TMRO.tv === OUR REAL-TIME DISCORD CHANNEL === All of the TMRO Shows are created and maintained in our Discord channel. Escape Velocity Patrons have access to a special room, but we also have free #general rooms that anyone can participate in. Join in for free at https://discord.gg/9NkkFWD === TMRO IS CROWD FUNDED === TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information plus our all new goals and reward levels

Footage of the SNC's Dream Chaser spacecraft at Dawn. The Dream Chaser is a cargo craft capable of transporting pressurized and unpressurized cargo to and from low-Earth orbit destinations such as the International Space Station. Further advantageous capabilities include cargo module disposal, low-g, gentle runway landing return of cargo and sensitive science payloads with immediate access. Video edited by : Go To Space Footage Courtesy: SNC Music: Oxygen Garden by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/divider/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Intro Music: THBD - Ocean https://soundcloud.com/thbdsultan Outro Music: HeroicMonk - Can't Kill Me https://soundcloud.com/heroicmonk - If you like this video please subscribe to my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/GotospaceOrg - Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoToSpace_GTS - Check out my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GoToSpace/ - Add me on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+GotospaceOrg

China plans to launch its reusable spacecraft in 2020, according to an announcement by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on Oct. 31.

Vice President Mike Pence and senior officials toured Stratolaunch and met with the team to discuss better access to space.

An ITN production with the IET ‘Engineering the Next Generation,’ which explores the challenges, careers and future of modern engineering in the UK.

Watch as our Dream Chaser® spacecraft was carried beneath a Columbia Helicopter over Edwards Air Force Base in California on August 30, 2017. This test, also known as the Captive Carry, is one of many milestones happening at NASA’s Armstrong flight Research Center leading up to a free flight later this year. Timestamps: 0:00 - 47:00: Analysis with Sierra Nevada Corporation's Kimberly Schwandt and Steve Lindsey/Facebook LIVE Q&A 47:00 - 58:50: Captive Carry lift-off

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched on Thursday, carrying the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B into orbit. Although few details of the mission were revealed, we know it's the fifth flight for the Boeing-built spaceplane, and the first time it’s been launched by SpaceX. The Air Force said the plane is carrying “experimental payloads," including satellites and new electronics. The X-37B returned to Earth in May after a two-year space mission. And you guessed it: the Air Force was vague about that mission, too. Subscribe to Vocativ: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=vocativvideo Find us everywhere else: Subscribe to the newsletter: http://www.vocativ.com/pages/newsletter/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vocativ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vocativ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vocativ/ Snapchat: http://www.snapchat.com/add/vocativ Website: http://www.vocativ.com

Video Credit: SpaceX Mission Updates: http://spaceflight101.com/x-37b-otv-5/ A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A at 14:00 UTC on September 7, 2017 - carrying into orbit the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane. Departing Florida prior to Hurricane Irma's looming arrival, Falcon 9 fired its first stage for two and a half minutes before handing over to the second stage to boost the 5,000-Kilogram winged spacecraft into a classified orbit for a mostly secret mission dedicated to in-space experiments and technology demonstrations. The rocket's first stage mastered SpaceX's seventh land-based recovery, touching down at the Cape's Landing Zone 1 eight minutes and 13 seconds after liftoff.

Watch the video to learn more about the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV).

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) on its fifth mission. SpaceX is targeting launch of OTV-5 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The primary launch window opens on Thursday, September 7 at 9:50 a.m. EDT or 13:50 UTC, and closes at 2:55 p.m. EDT or 18:55 UTC. A backup launch window is available on Friday, September 8.

X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle • Movement To Prep For Launch - Military News The U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) is being staged in preparation for its upcoming launch on September 7, 2017. Filmed on September 5, 2017. Film Credits: Video courtesy of Boeing, SrA Timothy Kirchner Subscribe & More Videos: https://goo.gl/HdVuXo Thank for watching, Please Like Share And SUBSCRIBE!!! #military, #armedforces

The Air Force announced that its X-37B space plane will launch on Sept. 7 from Kennedy Space Center, hitching a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.

Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser® spacecraft completes a 60mph tow test at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.

A short 3D animation showing the SABRE engine components.

Also: Pelton v Privatization, Pilatus Update, Army v DJI, Master Instructors, Cessna, Williams FJ44-4A-QPM, Airliner Threat The sixth glide test of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity was conducted in Mojave, CA Friday, and for the first time, the propulsion system for the suborbital spacecraft was installed and "live" ... but not engaged. According to Virgin Galactic, "with the exception of the rocket motor fuel grain, called the CTN (Case-Throat-Nozzle), Unity flew with all the spaceship’s principle propulsion components on-board and live. This meant that Unity took off with her forward pressurant tank loaded with helium and for the first time, her centrally positioned Main Oxidizer Tank fully charged with nitrous oxide. A VH-92A configured test aircraft in support of the U.S. Marine Corps’ VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program completed its first flight on July 28, signaling the start of the 250 hour flight test program, taking place at Lockheed Martin facilities in Owego, New York. The aircraft achieved its first flight, and later that same day completed a second flight at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut. Total flight time for the two sorties was one hour and included hover control checks, low speed flight, and a pass of the airfield. Airbus Perlan Mission II, an initiative to fly a glider without an engine to the edge of space to collect ground-breaking insights on climate change, weather and high-altitude flight, recently reached a new high altitude in its second season of flight testing in El Calafate, Argentina. Pilots Jim Payne, Morgan Sandercock, Tim Gardner and Miguel Iturmendi have soared the pressurized Perlan 2 glider in a series of flights reaching a maximum altitude to date of 32,500 feet. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!! Airborne 08.09.17 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Wednesday, August 9th, 2017... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers: VSS Unity Flies With Propulsion Systems Installed And Live First Flight: VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Airbus Perlan Mission II Reaches New High Altitude EAA's Jack Pelton Makes A Case Against ATC Privatization Classic Aero-TV: A Pilatus Aircraft Update - A Unique Kind of Aircraft Company U.S. Military Bans Use Of Chinese-Made Drones Three Receive Master Instructor Designation In July Cessna Pilot Centers Move To Paperless Training System FAA, EASA Certify Williams FJ44-4A-QPM Engine Two Charged In Australia With Terrorism In Thwarted Plot Against Airliner Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again tomorrow, LIVE from Oshkosh 2017, for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow! © 2017, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved. FMI: www.airbornetv.net, www.aero-news.net, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, https://vimeo.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews

On this look around the Air Force, the X-37B returns from its 718 day mission and the USAFA Superintendent testifies before Congress on SAPR. Hosted by SSgt Traci Keller.

Bristol University of West England Lecture By Mark Thomas Reaction Engines 13th June 2017...(You need to skip the first 15 minutes to the Lecture) Mark Thomas has been Chief Executive Officer of Reaction Engines Limited since May 2015. In this role he is leading development of the SABRE engine concept, a new class of aerospace propulsion system for hypersonic and space access applications. During his first 18 months Mark has grown the Company from around 65 to 110 employees, successfully led the team that achieved a strategic investment from BAE Systems and also secured the UK Government’s £60m grant. Before joining us, Mark graduated from Cambridge University with an Engineering degree and spent 25 years working in the Defence and Civil Aerospace businesses of Rolls-Royce plc. During this time he led a number of key programmes for Rolls-Royce, working closely with Customers and Partners worldwide. Notable roles included Chief Development Engineer for the EJ200 (Typhoon) engine, Chief Engineer of the EJ200, RB199 (Tornado), Adour (Hawk/Jaguar) & Trent 900 (Airbus A380) programmes, Technical Director of the Eurojet Turbo GmbH consortium based in Munich, and Chief Engineer, Civil Aerospace Technology and Future Programmes. MA (Cantab), CEng, FRAeS.

MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA — The world’s largest aircraft emerged from a hangar in the Mojave Desert, California at the end of May to begin fuel testing. At 117 metres wide, the Stratolaunch plane is wider than a football field. The aircraft is designed to make air-rocket launches in low-Earth orbit conditions a routine commute. It’s designed to carry spacebound rockets, with a payload of up to 275 tons, reports the Seattle Times. The Stratolaunch commences take off on a runway with a rocket attached to its belly. It was designed by Seattle-based firm Vulcan Aerospace. According to the Seattle Times, the plane weighs around 250 tons with no payload. With fuel and a fully loaded rocket, the plane can fly with a maximum takeoff weight of 650 tons — around the same weight as an commercial Airbus A380 carrying 550 passengers. The stratolaunch is manned by a three-person crew in the right fuselage, including a pilot, co-pilot and a flight engineer. The left fuselage cockpit is designed to remain empty and is unpressurized. The rocket is released after the plane reaches 35,000 feet. The rocket then fires its own engine and travels toward its orbit. The Stratolaunch airplane is expected to make its first launch in 2019. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- Go to https://www.patreon.com/tomonews and become a Patron now TomoNews is now on Patreon and we've got some cool perks for our hardcore fans. TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. Our tone is irreverent and unapologetic. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Crying dog breaks the internet’s heart — but this sad dog story has a happy ending" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prKTN9bYQc -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

On May 31, 2017, Stratolaunch aircraft reached a major milestone in its journey toward providing convenient, reliable, and routine access to low Earth orbit. The crew moved the Stratolaunch aircraft out of the hangar – for the first time ever – to conduct aircraft fueling tests. This marked the completion of the initial aircraft construction phase and the beginning of the aircraft ground and flight testing phase. For more information, visit http://stratolaunch.com/

The world's largest plane has been unveiled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen after it left its hangar in the California desert for the first time. Read the full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/06/01/microsoft-co-founder-unveils-worlds-biggest-aeroplane/ Get the latest headlines: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.

DARPA and Boeing have teamed up to develop a new aircraft as part of the agency’s Experimental Spaceplane XS-1 program

Animation of Reaction Engines SABRE TF1 test facility at Westcott Venture Park UK. The test facility at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, will enable Reaction Engines to test critical subsystems along with the testing of a SABRE engine core, which will commence in 2020. The company has already successfully undertaken testing of the engine’s pre-cooler and thrust chamber technologies, and will undertake further ground-based high-temperature testing of the pre-cooler early in 2018. Commenting on the construction of the new facility Reaction Engines’ CEO Mark Thomas said: “This is another exciting step forward in development of Reaction Engines’ SABRE engine and a visible demonstration of the UK’s commitment to the programme. I look forward to seeing this unique facility take shape and commencing our core engine testing, which will be a defining moment for aerospace.”

Peggy hollinger is the Industry Editor at the Financial Times. Peggy Hollinger was appointed the FT’s industry editor in September 2014. Prior to this, she had been a leader writer since September 2011. Ms Hollinger has also held the positions of the Paris bureau chief and Paris correspondent. Before that she was a UK company news editor and the retail correspondent. Joining the FT in 1987, she has also covered UK utilities and oil and gas and written for Lex. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with an honours degree in history.

Science fiction has promised us a rocket that blasts off into space without stages. How close is reality to the science fiction dream of a single stage to orbit? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - [email protected] Now, don’t get me wrong, Science Fiction is awesome. Like almost everyone working in the field of space and astronomy, I was deeply influenced by science fiction. For me, it was Star Trek and Star Wars. I had a toy phaser that made this awesome really loud phaser sound, and I played with it non-stop until it disappeared one day. And I was sure I’d left it in the middle of my floor, like I did with all my toys, but I found it a few years later, hidden up in a closet that I couldn’t reach. And I always wondered how it got there. Anyway, back to science fiction. For all of its inspiration, science fiction has put a few ideas into our brains which aren’t entirely helpful. You know, warp drives, artificial gravity, teleportation, and rockets that take off, fly to space, visit other planets orbiting stars, land again. The Millennium Falcon, Firefly, and Enterprise Shuttles are all examples of single stage to orbit to orbit spacecraft, or SSTOs. Consider the rockets that exist in reality, you know, the Atlases, Falcons and Deltas. They take off from a launch pad, fly for a bit until the fuel is used up in a stage of the rocket, then they jettison that stage and thrust with the next stage. The mighty Saturn V was so powerful that it had three stages, as it made it’s way to orbit. As we discussed in a previous video, SpaceX is working to make the first stage, and maybe even the second stage reusable, which is a vast improvement over just letting everything burn up, but there are no rockets that actually fly to orbit and back in a single stage. In fact, using the technology we have today, it’s probably not a good idea. Has anyone ever worked on a single stage to orbit? What technological advances will need to happen to make this work? As I said earlier, a single stage to orbit rocket would be something like the Millennium Falcon. It carries fuel, and then uses that fuel to fly into orbit, and from world to world. Once it runs out of fuel, it gets filled up again, and then it’s off again, making the Kessel Run and avoiding Imperial Blockades. This concept of a rocket matches our personal experience with every other vehicle we’ve ever been in. You drive your car around and refuel it, same with boats, airplanes and every other form of Earth-based transportation. But flying into space requires the expenditure of energy that defies comprehension. Let me give you an example. A Falcon 9 rocket can lift about 22,800 kilograms into low-Earth orbit. That’s about the same as a fully loaded cement truck - which is a lot. The entire fueled Falcon 9 weighs just over 540,000 kg, of which more than 510,000 kgs of it are fuel, with a little extra mass for the engines, fuel tanks, etc. Imagine if you drove a car that was essentially 95% fuel. The problem is specific impulse; the maximum amount of thrust that a specific kind of engine and fuel type can achieve. I’m not going to go into all the details, but the most efficient chemical rockets we have, fueled by liquid hydrogen and oxygen, can just barely deliver enough thrust to get you to orbit. They have a maximum specific impulse of about 450 seconds. Because the amount of fuel it takes to launch a rocket is so high, modern rockets use a staging system. Once a stage has emptied out all its fuel, it detaches and returns to Earth so that the second stage can keep going without having to drag along the extra weight of the empty fuel tanks. You might be surprised to know that many modern rockets are actually capable of reaching orbit with a single stage. The problem is that they wouldn’t be able to carry any significant payload. At the end of the day, considering the chemical rockets we have today, the multi-staged profile is the most efficient and cost-effective strategy for carrying the most payload to space for the lowest cost possible. Has anyone tried developing SSTOs in the past? Definitely. Probably the most widely publicized was NASA’s X-33/VentureStar program, developed by Lockheed Martin in the 1990s. The purpose of the X-33 was to test out a range of new technologies for NASA, including composite fuel tanks, autonomous flight, and a new lifting body design.

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The new “feather” re-entry system for space travel brings Virgin Galactic one step closer to the world’s first commercial passenger space flight. Subscribe to Vocativ: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=vocativvideo Find us everywhere else: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vocativ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vocativ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vocativ/ Snapchat: http://www.snapchat.com/add/vocativ Website: http://www.vocativ.com Vocativ explores the nexus of media and technology, where science meets storytelling. We use proprietary technology to examine the uncharted space of the Deep Web, covering topics that are vital to our changing world. Follow us for more!

The partially reusable Falcon 9 and fully reusable Skylon are explored in this episode of Stan Draws Spaceships! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/standrawsspaceships More information about ballistic coefficients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_coefficient Spacecraft shown as scale models at the end of the video: Skylon: https://goo.gl/l0ea6y Falcon 9: https://goo.gl/UcoZxJ Rotary Rocket: https://goo.gl/5JI6C8 Kistler K1: https://goo.gl/DvrJwg Venture Star: https://goo.gl/Y0eSnk MAKS: https://goo.gl/Zv4S4a Triamese Shuttle: http://www.astronautix.com/t/triamese.html DynaSoar: https://goo.gl/TYeirp Additional Note: I am aware that the fluid in the main Skylon heat exchanger micropipes is actually Helium that has been cooled in another heat exchanger with cryogenic hydrogen. Couldn't find an elegant way to word it that flowed, so that's why I said it's hydrogen in the pipes. Call me out on anything else you find! Music: Little Dipper by Poddington Bear

In this video, I discuss a very interesting proposal to send Sierra Nevada's Dreamchaser Spaceplace to the Hubble Space Telescope for one more servicing mission, just in case anything goes wrong with JWST. EpicFutureSpace is producing short space themed news videos focused on human transportation. To support the show please visit https://www.patreon.com/epicfuturespace All music written, recorded, and produced by Orbital Transit Songs used in this video were "Prometheus" and "Luna Vision" and can be downloaded for free at: https://soundcloud.com/orbitaltransit

Atmospheric Lens....HOW DOES IT WORK? The concept mirrors two existing effects in nature – the reflective properties of the ionosphere, and desert mirages. The ionosphere is a naturally occurring layer in the Earth's atmosphere that appears at about 40 miles in altitude. It can be reflective to radio waves, often allowing people to tune in to radio stations that are thousands of miles away. Radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, and travel very long distances through the air and over the Earth's surface. Desert mirages provide the illusion of water in the desert, by using hot air near the surface to bend light into the vision of the person looking into the distance. LDAL simulates both of these effects by using a high pulsed power laser, and exploiting a phenomena called the 'Kerr Effect' to temporarily ionise a small region of the atmosphere. Using the ionised atmosphere to reflect the laser, structures including mirrors and glass lenses could all be replicated. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4124594/Military-laser-transform-Earth-s-atmosphere-giant-magnifying-glass-glass-spy-enemies.html

Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, successfully glided freely for the first time over the Mojave Desert on Dec. 3

On December 3, 2016, our new SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew freely for the first time. This important test marks the first time that a vehicle built by our manufacturing organization, The Spaceship Company, has flown fully under its own control. In this video, Lead Test Pilot, Mark "Forger" Stucky, explains what it's like flying VSS Unity for the first time. You can read more about this flight test and about what’s coming next here: virg.in/HF6Yp

A while ago I switched over to Realism Overaul for KSP, a mod package providing a more realistic, and thus more challenging experience. I then proceeded to replicate the Skylon spaceplane as best I could. This design isn't complete, and the video only shows the first hour and a half of my building and testing process. My current version of this design has successfully made orbit, but I have some issues with bringing it down again. Note: If there's any advertising, it's not mine, it's because I use some music. Didn't really have time to find legally free music so I just pulled some stuff.

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has recently revealed that it is in the process of developing a large space plane that can hold as many as 20 passengers or more at a time. The pursuit of private space flight has accelerated in recent years with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin attempting to develop viable travel methods for passengers.  China has joined in on the race, with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology recently revealing details about its own spaceplane project to the International Astronautical Congress.  New Scientist reports that the group’s general concept involves a one-piece craft designed to carry as many as 20 passengers at a time with the potential for scaling up the capacity.  Han Pengxin, one of the researchers, is quoted as saying during the presentation, “The test flights will be finished in the next two years, because almost all of the ground tests have been finished and all the subsystems of the test vehicle worked very well.”  The team estimates that payload launches could happen as early as the year 2020, and, once the craft is determined safe, passenger flights could be available for $200,000 to $250,000 per seat.

SEATTLE — Washington-based company Vulcan Aerospace announced that its Stratolaunch Systems, an air-launch platform for rockets, is close to completion. According to Vulcan Aerospace’s website, the Stratolaunch has a wingspan of 385 ft and measures 238 ft in length. This six-engine aircraft is currently the world’s largest aircraft. The aircraft is designed to carry rockets weighing up to 275 tons. It would take off with the rocket attached to its belly from a runway and release the rocket when it reaches 35,000 feet in the air. The rocket then fires its own engine and travel towards its orbit. According to Financial Review, the company hopes to make air-rocket launch in the low-Earth orbit a routine commute through the use of the Stratolaunch System. The Stratolaunch Systems is expected to be completed by the end of this year and is estimated to start commercial services before 2020. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus

This week we examine the different Space Planes coming on the scene. Orbital planes such as Skylon and sub-orbital planes such as SpaceShipTwo. We ask you, would you want to go in to space in a Capsule or a Space Plane? In Space News we have: * SpaceX Pad Anomaly * Asteroid probe apparently unharmed in nearby SpaceX anomaly, passes Flight Readiness Review * China may have had a rocket anomaly on Wednesday * Juno beams back dramatic new pictures of Jupiter * New Zealand Launch Site Survives 7.1 Earthquake * Hunt for Planet 9 reveals extremely distant objects TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don't forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

This week we examine the different Space Planes coming on the scene. Orbital planes such as Skylon and sub-orbital planes such as SpaceShipTwo. We ask you, would you want to go in to space in a Capsule or a Space Plane? TMRO:Space is a crowd funded show. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for information, goals and reward levels. Don't forget to check out our SpacePod campaign as well over at http://www.patreon.com/spacepod

Is this going to be a new space reality? Lots of money behind this project. Hey parkjet guys, new stuff at: http://www.RCPowers.com