Suborbital flight
Galactic 04
Galactic 04 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the SS2 program.
Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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Galactic 04 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the SS2 program. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2023-S42; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
The launch
- Launch
- 6 October 2023
- Launch location
- VMS Eve, Spaceport America
- Launch vehicle
- SpaceShipTwo
- Orbit
- Suborbital trajectory
Launch intelligence
A Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket launched the Galactic-04 mission on Friday, October 6, 2023 at 4:10 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Virgin Galactic
- Vehicle
- SpaceShipTwo
- COSPAR launch ID
- Not assigned
- Flight profile
- Suborbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Oct 6, 2023, 16:10 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Oct 06 2023
- Pad and location
- VMS Eve, Spaceport America
Mission timeline
Follow the mission through its available trajectory data in the full 3D solar-system map.
Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 6 October 2023
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Spacecraft
Galactic 04
GCAT program: SS2.
- GCAT ID
- R82640
- Manufacturer
- Scaled Composites
- Dimensions
- 18.3 m long · 2.3 m diameter · 18.3 m span
Gallery
One image from Galactic 04.
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