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a Virgo galaxy Completed its first commercial space flight This Thursday (29). The mission, called Galactic 01, had scientific purposes.
The flight carried 13 research payloads and three crews of Italian Air Force and Italian National Research Council personnel, as well as pilots. According to the company, the crew did the following during the flight:
- Conducting 13 independent and human-assisted experiments to examine biomedical and thermofluid dynamics and develop innovative and sustainable materials in microgravity conditions
- Hypergravity evaluation and measurement analyzed the impact of microgravity transmission on the human body, including biological and physical data characteristics
- Data collected via research payloads and wearable sensors, and through unidentified research payloads installed in the cockpit of Virgin Galactic’s rock system
a The spacecraft was launched at 11:30 am Brasilia time It reached an altitude of 85 km at its peak. The flight took about an hour.
This is the space tourism company’s second flight of the month. The next flight, dubbed Galactic 02, is scheduled for August, with monthly flights scheduled after that..
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