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Good vibrations only. 🛠️ Aeroelasticity Engineer II Ana Predescu takes us inside ground vibration testing on Spaceship. Our engineers suspended the vehicle on soft bungees to simulate flight, shook it with electrodynamic shakers and captured every response with 150+ sensors. The result? A successful test with high-quality data gathered. Another key milestone on the road to flight.

Learn more and hear from Mike Moses, President of Spaceline on why this matters: bit.ly/MM-AFRL-BLOG

This layer of the atmosphere could shape everything from climate modeling to orbital tracking, yet it remains one of the least-measured regions of our planet. We believe our Spaceships can change that, by providing frequent, repeatable access to this part of the sky.

Roughly 30 to 70 miles above our heads sits a region of the atmosphere that scientists know remarkably little about. It’s not for lack of interest, but because nothing has been able to get there routinely or stay long enough to exhaustively study it.

“Understanding space weather dynamics in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere depends on consistent, high-quality observational data, which has remained limited at scale.” – Dr. Shaun Ard, AFRL

Virgin Galactic and @AFResearchLab signed a 24-month research agreement to evaluate the integration of sensor systems with Virgin Galactic’s next-generation Spaceship to collect space weather data during flight → bit.ly/AFRL-PR

Two of our own just earned one of flight test's highest honors. Congrats to Michael "Sooch" Masucci and Andy Edgell, named 2026 Fellows of The Society of Experimental Test Pilots (@SETP_ORG). SETP Fellow is the Society's top membership grade. It recognizes pilots whose work has made a lasting contribution to aerospace and flight testing. Sooch and Andy have helped push the boundaries of what's possible in commercial human spaceflight. They bring skill, discipline, and a relentless focus on safety to every flight. We're proud to fly with them.

Today, Unity 35 flew. VMS Eve carried VSS Unity to altitude for release and a glide flight back to @Spaceport_NM. Another great day of pilot training. In the cockpit: Eve: Mike Masucci, Dan Alix, Tori Crichton Unity: Jameel Janjua, Nicola Pecile

Chief Engineer Gabe Williams takes you inside our Spaceship Factory in Mesa, AZ, for the first mate of our new spaceship and Eve. Attachment points lined up within thousandths of an inch. Precision design. Precision build. Precision verification.

Two vehicles, one mission, side by side in Mesa for the first time. This is what progress looks like. Stay tuned for a closer look at the precision engineering behind aligning and mating our vehicles together.

If you're wondering what the white material is on the ship, it's there to protect the livery while we work on the vehicle.

This is the first of many feather raises during ground testing, and the first is always pretty special. Missed it or want a refresher? Rewatch We Build Spaceships, episode 6, to see how the feather works → youtu.be/R7U3h9dLO-g?si=Cydu…

Busy week for Eve. Wednesday: carried Unity to 53,000 ft for a glide flight. Today: Flew to Mesa, AZ for integration checks with our new spaceship.

Rewind to yesterday. Unity 34 in the books, second glide in the series, prepping our teams for the new spaceship 🚀

VSS Unity completed its 34th flight today, the second in our Unity glide series preparing pilots and ops teams for the new spaceship flight test program. CJ Sturckow and Andy Edgell flew Unity; Dan Alix and Jameel Janjua flew VMS Eve. More on the glide series here → bit.ly/GlideSeries

Learn more about the avionics in episode 7 of We Build Spaceships here → youtube.com/watch?v=o2SyMRjN…

From design schematics to bench testing to install to POWER ON. Avionics is the nervous system of a spaceship. Thousands of sensors. 12 miles of wiring. A constant stream of data, turned into information our pilots can trust. Without it, the vehicle is a structure. With it, it's alive.

🗳️ Voting is officially closed. 83 countries. 6 continents. 1 spaceship. You showed up from every corner of the map, and we’re grateful for every single vote. Thank you for naming our spaceship. Stay tuned…

Turns out people really like naming spaceships. Voting is extended through September 3. Four finalists on the ballot: Horizon, Ascend, Explorer, Apeiron. Vote → bit.ly/nameaspaceshipvote #nameaspaceship