Angelo Landolfi

Italian - (IAF)

Active

Italian Air Force physician selected to fly on the Virgin Galactic 01 mission.

Spaceflight Record

Angelo Landolfi flew on one previous launch(es).

SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 29, 2023, 3:28 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Research mission for the Italian Air Force, first commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Suborbital

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The Italian Air Force is the air force of the Italian Republic. The Italian Air Force was founded as an independent service arm on 28 March 1923 by King Victor Emmanuel III as the Regia Aeronautica ("Royal Air Force"). After World War II, when Italy became a republic following a referendum, the Regia Aeronautica was given its current name.

Recent Launches

Long March 3B/E

Failure

14 hours, 52 minutes ago

Shijian 32

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Chinese experimental spacecraft of unknown purposes.

Ceres-1S

Success

1 day, 11 hours ago

Tianqi 37-40

Rizhao offshore launch location - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.

Long March 2C

Success

2 days, 3 hours ago

AlSat 3A

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Earth observation satellite built by China's CAST for the Algerian Space Agency.

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 13 hours ago

Starlink Group 6-98

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 8A

Success

3 days, 16 hours ago

SatNet LEO Group 18

Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…