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Virgin Galactic Completes Sixth Successful Spaceflight in Six Months

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or the “Company”) today announced the completion of its sixth space mission in six months and tenth to date.

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  • Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or the “Company”) today announced the completion of its sixth space mission in six months and tenth to date.
  • The ‘Galactic 05’ mission saw Virgin Galactic’s spaceship converted into a suborbital lab for space-based scientific research for the second time.
  • Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic, said: “Providing researchers with reliable and repeatable access to a high-quality microgravity environment is vital to our mission of expanding human knowledge and enabling scientific discoveries.
  • Press materials may be accessed via the Virgin Galactic Newsroom at https://press.virgingalactic.com , including:

‘Galactic 05’ Research Mission Set to Become Virgin Galactic’s Sixth Flight in Six Months

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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The ‘Galactic 05’ mission would once again see Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship converted into a suborbital space lab for space-based research.

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  • The ‘Galactic 05’ mission would once again see Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship converted into a suborbital space lab for space-based research.
  • This research mission reaffirms Virgin Galactic’s commitment to providing unprecedented access to space by reducing the historical barriers of time and cost associated with innovative microgravity and space-based research.
  • Payload Specialist and Bioastronautics Researcher for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)
    ‘Galactic 05’ is set to become Galactic’s sixth space research mission and its second this year.
  • Her research has been developed through extensive reduced gravity flight campaigns with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and would now be advanced through a suborbital flight.

Fujitsu Conducts Successful Large-scale Electromagnetic Wave Simulations for Space Industry, Urban Transport Use Cases with Solution for HPC Cloud

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Thursday, July 21, 2022
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Fujitsu plans to provide its electromagnetic wave analysis solution to address this challenge.

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  • Fujitsu plans to provide its electromagnetic wave analysis solution to address this challenge.
  • To verify the effectiveness of its solution as a new cloud-service, Fujitsu conducted large-scale electromagnetic wave simulations in the following two areas.
  • The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) utilized Fujitsu's wave analysis solution to conduct large-scale electromagnetic wave simulations evaluating the radio wave intensity in the X-ray spectrometer(4) of JAXA's X-ray imaging satellite XRISM(5).
  • Fujitsu conducted large-scale electromagnetic wave simulations utilizing its wave analysis solution to evaluate roadside-to-vehicle (high-speed 5G) communication quality between transmitters installed at intersections and receivers installed in vehicles.