Spaceship One...

[blufive]

...has flown again, this time to about 60km altitude. From the Scaled Composites website:

The third powered flight of SpaceShipOne. 55 seconds motor burn time.
[...]
Motor light off occurred 10 seconds after release and the vehicle boosted smoothly to 150,000 feet [~46km] and Mach 2.5. Subsequent coast to apogee of 211,400 feet [~64km]

It looks like the X-Prize may well be won this year.

[via The Register]

Comments

[del-c.livejournal.com]

It has to be won this year, if it's to be won at all, as it expires on 1 January 2005.

Whether or not Scaled Composites wins the $10M (and I hope it does) it would be nice if a new challenge were to be laid down, for say $30M, for a feat to be achieved by 1 Jan 2010.