Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted 04-08-2004 01:28 PM               

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I don't have a link yet, but Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites conducted another test flight of SpaceShipOne today, the second time the spacecraft's rocket engine was used. As I understand it, the vehicle reached about Mach 2, and climbed to almost a third of the X Prize target altitude.

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