{"id":19628,"date":"2011-05-19T02:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=19628"},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:28:55","slug":"beautiful-first-feather-flight-of-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-video-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/beautiful-first-feather-flight-of-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-video-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful First Feather Flight of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo – Video Within"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is another step towards Space Traveling. Virgin Galactic has successful tested its SpaceShipTwo (SS2, named VSS Enterprise) capability (for the first time) to execute the Feathered configuration for re-entry.<\/p>\n

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This “shuttlecock” position or feathered configuration, where the wings tilted 65 degrees to increase the drag during the re-entry, is to ensure the safest way that the SS2 can re-enter Earth. Here is a description of what happen.<\/p>\n

After a 45 minute climb to the desired altitude of 51,500 feet, SS2 was released cleanly from VMS Eve and established a stable glide profile before deploying, for the first time, its re-entry or \u201cfeathered\u201d configuration by rotating the tail section of the vehicle upwards to a 65 degree angle to the fuselage. It remained in this configuration with the vehicle\u2019s body at a level pitch for approximately 1 minute and 15 seconds whilst descending, almost vertically, at around 15,500 feet per minute, slowed by the powerful shuttlecock-like drag created by the raised tail section. At around 33,500 feet the pilots reconfigured the spaceship to its normal glide mode and executed a smooth runway touch down, approximately 11 minutes and 5 seconds after its release from VMS Eve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this beautiful video captured by telescopic cameras (watch the feather at 1:47).<\/p>\n

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Click Here to Virgin Galactic website<\/a><\/h1>\n

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