weight saving is really really important if you want to launch rockets. the squadron leader, matthew stanny stannard, is on loan to virgin 0rbit from the royal air force. he has already played a role in three successful rocket launches from cosmic girl over the mojave desert in the united states. can you take us through a mission and how it works? we get airborne from the runway behind us, and head out to what is called a race track, the point where we will drop the rocket. that phase is called captive carry, we re just looking after the rocket, making sure it is healthy, using launch engineers in the back and mission control on the ground. we commence about 2g, so if you are a passenger on this aeroplane, you feel yourself being pushed down slightly on the seat, and we go to about 35 degrees, nose up. and what we do is we try to transfer energy from the aeroplane to the rocket. by us going to that, the moment the rocket comes off it s heading off to where we want it to and not wasti
from the royal air force. he has already played a role in three successful rocket launches from cosmic girl over the mojave desert in the united states. can you take us through a mission and how it works? we get airborne from the runway behind us, and head out to what is called a race track, the point where we will drop the rocket. that phase is called captive carry, we re just looking after the rocket, making sure it is healthy, using launch engineers in the back and mission control on the ground. we commence about 2g, so if you are a passenger on this aeroplane, you feel yourself being pushed down slightly on the seat, and we go to about 35 degrees, nose up. and what we do is we try to transfer energy from the aeroplane to the rocket. by us going to that, the moment the rocket comes off it s heading off to where we want it to and not wasting any fuel. when we get to about 35 degrees nose up, we get to the right speed and the copilot will press the button to release the rocket. at tha
can you take us through a mission and how it works? we get airborne from the runway behind us, and head out to what is called a race track, the point where we will drop the rocket. that phase is called captive carry, we re just looking after the rocket, making sure it is healthy, using launch engineers in the back and mission control on the ground. we commence about 2g, so if you are a passenger on this aeroplane, you feel yourself being pushed down slightly on the seat, and we go to about 35 degrees, nose up. and what we do is we try to transfer energy from the aeroplane to the rocket. by us going to that, the moment the rocket comes off it s heading off to where we want it to and not wasting any fuel. when we get to about 35 degrees nose up, we get to the right speed and the copilot will press the button to release the rocket. at that point the aeroplane is all the way over to the right side, and we re going to watch the rocket head to space. our system is portable. it is an airplane