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Virgin Galactic seeks to raise money to accelerate growth of spaceplane fleet (spacenews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's remarkably cheap.

[–] kowanatsi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And remarkably non-existent? They talk about fleets when they can barely scrape together a single airframe that doesn’t fall apart

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which of VG's airframes fell apart?

[–] kowanatsi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh the conclusion was pilot error:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/co-pilots-error-caused-virgin-galactic-crash-says-ntsb-180956101/

But reading the through the findings you’d think there would’ve been some failsafe system before the maneuver