Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two crashed?
Discussion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29857182
Virgin confirm "in-flight anomay", other reports of a crash.
Virgin confirm "in-flight anomay", other reports of a crash.
Grumfutock said:
Is it me or did that thing always look a bit flimsy?
Study is not cheap to put onto a sub-orbital trajectory. Best case this is an easily fixed aberration which is going to put back flights by a year or more, worst case is that it's something fundamental and the whole concept has to be binned.
davepoth said:
Grumfutock said:
Is it me or did that thing always look a bit flimsy?
Study is not cheap to put onto a sub-orbital trajectory. Best case this is an easily fixed aberration which is going to put back flights by a year or more, worst case is that it's something fundamental and the whole concept has to be binned.
That's White Knight 2. Its Spaceship 2 that's gone.
MajorProblem said:
Been told this was a test of new fuel type.
They've had an explosion before iirc, that killed some ground staff.
The last fuel type was a solid rubber which by all accounts was extremely volatile. I read the recent Branson book by Tom Bower which had quite a lot of information about this project. I hope the second pilot survives.They've had an explosion before iirc, that killed some ground staff.
sparks_E39 said:
THX said:
That's the end of that, then.
I very much doubt it.Some of the people who have already paid will be having second thoughts.
This also has serious implications for NASA's space programme. NASA has not been investing much in ground launch vehicles because they assumed that it would be cheaper to use private companies. NASA has been spending lots on the craft that would go from near Earth orbit to Mars - and back.
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