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Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial airplane that flies at

The company signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Rolls-Royce to develop an engine for the aircraft.

Galactic's main focus this far has been its part-plane, part-rocket craft that is being developed to carry tourists to the edge of space.The company, which was listed on the stock exchange last year, is seeking to diversify and in May it announced an agreement with NASA to develop high-speed technology.experimental aircraft, the X-59. A first prototype is being built by Lockheed-Martin in California.boom -- the explosion caused by crossing the sound barrier -- almost inaudible on the ground.

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