This week, the New Yorker magazine warned that the SpaceShipTwo deviated from the planned route for two minutes.
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This is unacceptable at the speeds reached by spacecraft. He could endanger other planes and people on Earth.
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According to information from Space.com and Ars Technica, a red light flashed over New Mexico on the control panel of the SpaceShipTwo with Branson and three other people on board, warning of a bad trajectory.
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The pilots had two options; either put out the rocket propulsion and leave the first place in space to the rival company of Jeff Bezzos, or try to correct the trajectory and continue the flight.
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Richard Branson
Foto: Brendan Mcdermid, Reuters
The pilots decided to continue and they succeeded in repairing. But the FAA is now investigating whether it was too risky.
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“Virgin Galactic cannot fly with SpaceShipTwo again until the FAA approves the final in-flight incident report. And he will not decide that there was no public threat in this incident, “said the US Air Traffic Control Authority.
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We did not endanger anyone
Virgin Galactic itself states that the diversion from the planned court took place, but no one was endangered, because the machine was moving in a safe and pre-arranged corridor above uninhabited areas.
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In addition, Branson did not crash, and in July, with the SpaceShipTwo rocket, it overtook the main competitor, the founder of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, by less than two weeks.
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The development of the shuttle took Branson’s company 17 years and amounted to more than 21.69 billion crowns.
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The plane took off from the Spaceport America astrodrome near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
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The parent aircraft VMS Eve brought the ship to the expected height of about 15 kilometers. Then the shuttle detached, ignited its own engines, and climbed steeply to the 90-kilometer mark.
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