Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo will resume flights this year

Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic, as promised its creator, возобновляет test flight of SpaceShipTwo . The first ship of the series crashed during one of the flights, the accident happened Oct. 31, 2014.

Commission National Transportation Safety Board (NSTB) found that the co-pilot Michael Alsbari too early to put a command to change the configuration parameters of the tail of the ship. As a result, the ship did not escape velocity crashed. The first pilot Pete Siebold was able to eject and survived.

Now the company is almost finish the new SpaceShipTwo - the readiness of the project is 90%, including both the body and the control system of the ship. Ship design meets all requirements NTSB, in addition, engineers Virgin Galactic is now improving the ship in order to make it even safer.



According to Richard Branson, the flights will be resumed very soon - faster than anyone could expect. It is hoped that this time the company has everything goes smoothly, and no error control (error pilots or computer), or equipment failure will not.

By the way, Branson previously promised , he will be the first passenger of the ship, after the beginning of spaceflight. Last year, Virgin Galactic has become first company to receive a license to kosmoturizm.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/244053/