Virgin continues progress towards first powered SpaceShipTwo flight

Virgin Galactic wants to make sure people know its first powered SpaceShipTwo (SS2) flight is coming soon. Yesterday the company tweeted a photo of what it called the second “in a short series of final tests” of the vehicle’s hybrid rocket motor prior to that first flight:

The company didn’t provide any additional information about the test, including even when exactly it took place beyond that it took place last Friday, March 8 (according to the caption on a Facebook posting of the photo, as a reader noted in the comments to this post.) Last week Virgin announced the first test in this series, which took place February 28, via a blog post by Sir Richard Branson. That test, although not the one the company announced yesterday, now appears on the RocketMotorTwo test log.

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