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What's Next For Virgin Galactic?

Eric Adams

at 09:17 AM Nov 4 2014

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Space Travel //

In 2004, I sat down in a flight simulator at Scaled Composites with test pilot and engineer Peter Siebold. He'd built the simulator—a precise replica of the cockpit in Scaled's radically unconventional SpaceShipOne (SS1). That ship was the predecessor of SpaceShipTwo (SS2), which broke apart over the Mojave Desert on Friday. Siebold was at the controls at the time of the accident, with Mike Alsbury as co-pilot

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crashed During A Mojave Test Flight [Developing]

Loren Grush and Kelsey D. Atherton

at 14:34 PM Nov 1 2014

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Space Travel //

There’s a growing, looming shadow over the private spaceflight industry. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a suborbital rocket designed for tourists, crashed on Friday, Oct. 31 due to an “in-flight anomaly" during a powered test flight over the Mojave Desert.

The World's Largest Solar Farm

Jia You

at 23:57 PM May 12 2014

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Energy //

In February, the Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System opened over a 3,500-acre stretch of the Mojave Desert. The solar thermal farm operates at 392 megawatts—just under 1 percent of California’s total energy production, or enough to power 140,000 homes.