{"id":208922,"date":"2017-05-02T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=208922"},"modified":"2017-05-02T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:29:44","slug":"virgin-galactic-tests-vss-unitys-re-entry-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/208922-virgin-galactic-tests-vss-unitys-re-entry-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic tests VSS Unity&#8217;s re-entry system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/update-from-mojave-first-feather-flight-of-vss-unity-completed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>has successfully tested<\/strong><\/a> the VSS Unity\u2019s &#8220;feather&#8221; re-entry system in flight for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VSS_Unity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>VSS Unity<\/strong><\/a> is a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered manned plane, which was rolled out on 19 February 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The re-entry system which was tested involved the VSS Unity folding up its tail boom to improve stability when it re-entered the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The test flight was conducted from the Mojave Air and Space Port, with the VSS Unity piloted by Mark Stucky and Mike Masucci.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was the fourth glide flight and the eighth flight overall of the VSS Unity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOVh19cOpOc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/190492-virgin-galactics-new-spaceship-completes-first-free-flight.html\">Virgin Galactic\u2019s new spaceship completes first free flight<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has successfully tested the VSS Unity\u2019s re-entry system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":171335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[19228,42916],"class_list":["post-208922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-virgin-galactic","tag-vss-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208922"}],"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=208922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208958,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208922\/revisions\/208958"}],"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=208922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}