Testy w locie VSS Unity

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Virgin Galactic to nic innego jak wizerunkowa klapa. Czy oni mają jeszcze na liście kogokolwiek chętnego (poza Bransonem) do lotu suborbitalnego? Prędzej Musk zacznie budować stadiony na Marsie niż VG wykona pierwszy w pełni komercyjny lot suborbitalny.....

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Our mothership, VMS Eve, will be conducting a flight from Spaceport America, New Mexico, today and another tomorrow.  Today’s pilots will be CJ Sturckow and Dave Mackay. They will be using VMS Eve to simulate SpaceShipTwo Unity’s glide and approach-to-land phase.

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VMS Eve heads into the vast New Mexico skies. The pilots for today’s flight are CJ Sturckow and Dave Mackay.

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Our mothership, VMS Eve, is being prepared for another routine flight. Today’s pilots will be Kelly Latimer and Mike ‘Sooch’ Masucci.  Our pilots will be completing some routine proficiency checks and practicing in-flight maneuvers.

Our mothership, VMS Eve, has landed safely back at Spaceport America, New Mexico.

Highlights from this week’s VMS Eve flights in New Mexico. During a spaceflight, VMS Eve acts as a mothership and carries SpaceShipTwo Unity to release altitude. These were routine flights for our pilots to complete regular proficiency checks.

VMS Eve is named after Richard Branson’s mother, Eve, who sadly passed away this month. Eve was always cheering us on and will be immortalized through our beautiful carrier aircraft. As Richard said: "There's no way you can have a mothership and not name it after your mother!"

[Orionid]

Richard Branson's mother dies of Covid-19
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Updated 1436 GMT (2236 HKT) January 11, 2021



New York (CNN Business)Eve Branson, mother of Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, has died of coronavirus, her son announced Monday.

In a blog post announcing the death, Branson said that his mother "held on for one last victory, managing to fight off the virus, but had expended all of her energy in the process." She was 96.


Richard and Eve Branson in 2016.

He said that one of his sisters and his nephew were with her "until the end" as well the "wonderful nurses who she entertained with tales from her life and much laughter over glasses of whisky."

Further detailing Eve's life, Branson wrote that his mom taught his siblings the "importance of hard work, of not taking yourself too seriously, of treating people how you wish to be treated, of entrepreneurship, and so much more."

The British billionaire said she was "always working on a project" when he was young and that she was "inventive, fearless, relentless — an entrepreneur before the word existed."

Branson also credits the start of the Virgin conglomerate to a £100 given to him by his mother after she sold a necklace. The name of one of Virgin Galatic's spacecraft, VMS Eve, is named after her and that she "will always be my mothership."

Branson's father died in 2011. Together, they had three kids including his sister's Lindy and Vanessa.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/11/business/richard-branson-mother-death-covid/index.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/01/11/richard-branson-loses-mother-to-covid-19-eve-branson-96-was-a-force-of-nature-who-taught-richard-not-to-take-himself-too-seriously/?sh=3d77fb234776

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Branson

[Orionid]

Czy lot VSS Unity z 2019 był niebezpieczny?
BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 12 LUTEGO 2021

(...) Na początku lutego 2021 pojawiły się doniesienia, że podczas drugiego “kosmicznego lotu” VSS Unity doszło do uszkodzeń tego rakietoplanu. Z dostępnych informacji wynika, że podczas inspekcji po locie odkryto, że zniszczeniu uległa uszczelka, która przechodzi przez dużą część stabilizatora na skrzydle VSS Unity. W konsekwencji, integralność całego stabilizatora została naruszona. (...)
https://kosmonauta.net/2021/02/czy-lot-vss-unity-z-2019-byl-niebezpieczny/

https://globetrender.com/2021/01/14/virgin-galactic-take-tourists-space-2021/

AA https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3432.msg158078#msg158078

[kanarkusmaximus]

Dziś był pierwszy "kosmiczny" lot VSS Unity ze SpacePort America:


Pewnie oficjalne informacje się niebawem pojawią.

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[Orionid]

8:40 PM · 22 maj 2021

#Unity21 made a beautiful ascent to apogee over Spaceport America, New Mexico. #VirginGalactic

https://twitter.com/SpaceForceCSO/status/1396174150721490949

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https://twitter.com/SpacesFuture/status/1396304293553065984

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4 dodatkowe fotki z wczoraj:

[Jake_Suly]

Zejdzie im jeszcze z dekada???Bo w sumie już tyle czekam...

[mss]

Zejdzie im jeszcze z dekada???Bo w sumie już tyle czekam...

Nie tylko ty, się pociesz nieco

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https://twitter.com/AstroCoastie/status/1396344223281160192

Dołączam się do gratulacji dla całego zespołu!

[JSz]

A o co właściwie chodziło w tym locie? W czym był taki przełomowy? W powyższych postach o tym nie ma.