Go through to the extended portion of this blog post to watch the 8min 33s video of Virgin Galactic's prime contractor Scaled Composites (and its subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corp) first test firings of the SpaceShip Two rocket motor
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VIDEO: Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two rocket motor firing
|Go through to the extended portion of this blog post to watch the 8min 33s video of Virgin Galactic's prime contractor Scaled Composites (and its subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corp) first test firings of the SpaceShip Two rocket motor
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on May 28, 2009 6:53 PM | Reply
It must have been an enormous challenge given the 5 years since the last engine firing. The missing story is the one about the nitrous oxide explosions being fixed & the final fuel being selected.
on May 29, 2009 9:30 AM | Reply
Fixed? I guess you mean some sort of redesign to stop that happening. The evidence from the official investigation actually pointed too a straight forward situation where preparartions had not been carried out corectly leading to condtons whereby the nitrous oxide would become explosive. You can read my comments about that situation here http://tinyurl.com/55259k
As for the final solid fuel being selected. I have tried to investigate this, I wrote this blog about it http://tinyurl.com/l72gdp
on July 6, 2009 8:32 PM | Reply
Pretty lame that they purposely cut the sound during the control room bits. Can't imagine anything too top secret was going on exactly then...