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Michael Masucci

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Mike “Sooch” Masucci was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and U2 test pilot.

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF27

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 11, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF29

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
July 29, 2014, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF04

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 1, 2017, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF07

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 11, 2018, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF03

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
July 26, 2018, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Feb. 22, 2019, 4:57 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Unity. Carried a third crew member in the passenger cabin for the first time.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF09

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 25, 2020, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity 22

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
July 11, 2021, 3:25 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity 25

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 25, 2023, 4:23 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Virgin Galactic return to space mission ahead of the first commercial flight.

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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.

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SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 03

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 8, 2023, 3:22 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Third commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

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SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 05

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Nov. 2, 2023, 3:44 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

Fifth commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

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Founder: Richard Branson

Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.


Ariane 64
Success
5 days, 1 hour ago
Amazon Leo (LE-01)
Ariane Launch Area 4 - Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, thi…


Vulcan VC4S
Success
5 days, 8 hours ago
USSF-87
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

USSF-87 will launch two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites GSSAP-7 and GSSAP-8 directly to a near-geosyn…


Proton-M
Success
5 days, 8 hours ago
Elektro-L No.5
81/24 (81P) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real…


Smart Dragon 3
Success
5 days, 11 hours ago
PRSC-EO2 & 6 satellites
South China Sea (launch location 3) - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Carried 7 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit, including PRSC-EO2 (Earth observation satellite for the Pakistan government's SUPARCO) & CUHK-1. Detai…


Falcon 9
Success
6 days ago
Starlink Group 17-34
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.