{"id":174504,"date":"2016-08-02T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=174504"},"modified":"2016-08-02T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:08:52","slug":"virgin-galactic-gets-spaceship-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/174504-virgin-galactic-gets-spaceship-licence.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic gets Spaceship licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST) has awarded Virgin Galactic an operator licence for SpaceShipTwo.<\/p>\n<p>The licence permits commercial operations of the vehicle and was the culmination of years of interaction with the FAA.<\/p>\n<p>The licence review process consists of a review of the vehicle&#8217;s system design, safety analysis, and flight trajectory analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe granting of our operator licence is an important milestone for Virgin Galactic, as is our first taxi test for our new spaceship,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/faa-ast-awards-virgin-galactic-operator-license-for-spaceshiptwo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>said Virgin Galactic Senior Vice President of Operations Mike Moses.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Virgin Galactic<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/171333-virgin-galactic-to-resume-test-flights.html\"><strong>Virgin Galactic to resume test flights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/163416-5-human-spaceflight-missions-coming-soon.html\"><strong>5 human spaceflight missions coming soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/150151-the-best-nasa-pictures-this-year.html\">The best Nasa pictures this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has awarded Virgin Galactic an operator licence for SpaceShipTwo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":171335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,19228],"class_list":["post-174504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-virgin-galactic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174510,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174504\/revisions\/174510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}