test flight

Virgin Galactic has successfully completed a second supersonic test flight of the VSS Unity. This is the second test flight since a fatal accident back in 2014. The spaceship reached a speed of Mach 1.9 and an altitude of over 114,000 feet. All in all it was an uneventful flight and it will...

Virgin Galactic is back to flying powered spacecraft again after a fatal crash of their first ship in 2014. This flight was launched from high-altitude from the mothership and it reached a top speed of Mach 1.6. The final altitude of the craft wasn't released, but the fact that it successfully...

Aquila, the first functional drone aircraft from Facebook, took on its second successful test flight at a total flight time of 1 hr and 46 minutes. The drone flew above 3,000 feet and successfully landed this time as opposed to the crash after the first test flight. The goal of the drone is to...