Virgin’s amazing rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo ‘VSS Unity’ climbed to 170,800ft on its third powered flight, the first time it has reached the mesosphere. And it hit Mach 2.47 during the flight. Launch was from the more conventionally-engined WhiteKnightTwo. There is a video of the flight. An interesting snippet from the Virgin website is that WhiteKnightTwo’s twin cabins come ...
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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/virgin-galactic-reaches-mesosphere-2018-07/
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