The Journal of Space Commerce

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VSS Unity Test Flight Fails to Reach Space

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Tom Patton
Dec 16, 2020
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Virgin Galactic suffered a bit of a setback over the weekend when the VSS Unity test flight failed to reach space Saturday.

"The flight did not reach space as we had been planning. After being released from its mothership, the spaceship’s onboard computer that monitors the rocket motor lost connection. As designed, this triggered a fail-safe scenario tha…

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