"We've passed a lot of the biggest hurdles, " Will Whitehorn told reporters on the sidelines of a space conference in Dubai.

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Founded by Jeremy Leggett, the chairman of solar energy company Solarcentury, along with (rather unusually since his company will be consuming plenty of fuel to get rockets into space) Virgin Galactic Chief Executive Will Whitehorn.

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Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic's president, said that one of the things which attracted Aabar was the fact that White Knight (an aircraft which lifts to high altitude a rocket that can then take either passengers or satellites onwards into space) could be flown from Abu Dhabi.

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Virgin will begin testing WhiteKnightTwo this summer, said Whitehorn.

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"Once we have tested that sufficiently, we will put the spaceship underneath it, " said Whitehorn.

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"The spaceport will be open next year and we will hopefully test flights into space next year, " Whitehorn said.

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