VSS Voyager
VSS Voyager[4] (Tail number: N202VG[2]) is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered manned spaceplane. It is the second ship being built, and is planned to be used as part of the Virgin Galactic Fleet.
Overview
Like its sister craft, VSS Enterprise, it shares its name with both a NASA spacecraft (Voyager) and fictional Star Trek starship (USS Voyager).[4]
History
The manufacture of the second SS2 aircraft began in 2012.[2] The plane's registration, N202VG, was filed in September 2014.[5] The build of Voyager is about 65 percent complete, 90 percent structurally complete, as of early November 2014, and Virgin Galactic expects it to be complete and ready to fly in 2015.[3][6] Testing is anticipated to restart in the summer of 2015.[1]
The manufacturing of the aircraft is currently vital to the success of Virgin Galactic, as the previous spacecraft (VSS "Enterprise") broke up in-flight in late October 2014 and crashed into the Mojave desert.
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