SpaceShipThree

The Scaled Composites SpaceShipThree (SS3) was a mid-2000s proposed spaceplane to be developed by Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, ostensibly to follow SpaceShipTwo.

The mission originally proposed for SpaceShipThree in 2005 was orbital spaceflight, as part of Tier 2.^[1][2]

As of 2008, the company has scaled back those plans and articulated a design that would be a point-to-point vehicle traveling outside the atmosphere.^[3] As of 2008, the SpaceShipThree concept spacecraft was conceived to be used for transportation through point-to-point suborbital spaceflight with the spacecraft providing, for example, a two-hour trip on the Kangaroo Route (from London to Sydney or Melbourne).^[3]

References

External links

• Space tourism companies aiming for orbit (New Scientist Space, 8/24/2005)

See also

• StratoLaunch Systems
• Suborbital transport
• Suborbital bomber

The Spaceship Company (Virgin Galactic) Related companies Virgin Galactic (Virgin Group) Scaled Composites (Northrop Grumman) Mojave Aerospace Ventures Notable people Richard Branson Burt Rutan (founders) Doug Shane (president) Michael Alsbury† Brian Binnie Keith Colmer David Mackay Michael Masucci Clint Nichols Peter Siebold Mark Stucky Frederick Sturckow (test pilots) Background Ansari X Prize Scaled Composites Tier One SpaceShipOne White Knight One Programs / Ships Tier 1b SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise† 2014 crash VSS Voyager White Knight Two VMS Eve VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett RocketMotorTwo SpaceShipThree Spaceports Mojave Spaceport Spaceport America Spaceport Sweden Related topics Kármán line Space tourism Companies Sub-orbital spaceflight Spaceplane