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Continuing to realise the potential that space holds requires a dramatic and rapid change in space access technology, away from the dirty, dangerous and expensive systems that have been employed for the last half century. We need to make space travel less carbon intensive, less environmentally damaging, less wasteful, safer and more cost efficient so that it can play a key role in the low carbon economy of the future.
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• Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft is air launched from a carrier aircraft at 50,000 ft rather than a vertical ground launch, radically reducing the amount of energy and therefore rocket fuel required to propel the vehicle into space
• the system is almost entirely constructed from carbon composite materials that are four times the strength of steel but only a quarter of the weight, dramatically reducing energy requirements
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Here is what our companies are doing to make going out of this world more sustainable:
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Virgin Galactic is a clean-tech project whose mission has been to overturn much of the traditional thinking behind 50 years of space travel . This has been realised with a design that has transformed the safety, cost and environmental impacts of access to space.
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• the spaceship’s hybrid rocket motor only uses benign, non-toxic fuels
• Virgin Galactic’s system is reusable to a greater extent than any other manned space vehicle.
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WhiteKnightTwo is already the world’s largest all carbon composite aviation vehicle and the most fuel efficient of its size. In achieving its mission, Virgin Galactic can act as a test-bed for new and clean technologies, such as the use of carbon composites in large aircraft, which have applications across a range of industrial sectors.
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Virgin’s willingness to invest and take risks has already pushed the pace of change beyond that which government agencies and traditional industry have been able to achieve.
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Due to the experimental licence under which it operates, Virgin Galactic could also provide an ideal platform for testing the commercial use of and regulatory requirements for sustainable, renewable jet fuel.
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Virgin Galactic’s commercial suborbital space craft are based on Burt Rutan and Paul Allen’s SpaceShipOne, which won the Anasari X-prize in 2004. The Anasari X-prize was a $10 million US prize for the first commercial enterprise to travel into space using a privately funded, reusable, manned spacecraft twice in a two week period.
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