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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's remarkably cheap.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Which of VG's airframes fell apart?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours 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