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November 07, 2016

Airborne 11.07.16: Virgin Galactic Update, NBAA-BACE, RC Field Under Attack

Also: Uncontained Engine Failure, de Havilland Beaver, GAMA Board, #BizAvWorks, Transitional Winglet, Deer Jet, Rockwell Collins

Here’s an update from Virgin Galactic about the progress with the SpaceShipTwo flight testing program. The second SpaceShipTwo, named ‘VSS Unity’, flew for the first time in September, but it was not released from the mothership. Writing on the Virgin Galactic blog, the company says that the results from September’s test were encouraging enough that the team agreed that no further captive carry flights are needed. The next time VSS Unity takes to the sky, it will be released from the mothership and glide down for the landing. he NBAA wrapped up the third and final day of its 2016 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in

Aerojet Rocketdyne Engine Test Successful

Launch Abort Engine Hot Fire Tests Supports Human Spaceflight Launches From The United States

Aerojet Rocketdyne, has successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on two Launch Abort Engines (LAE) featuring innovative new propellant valves for Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner service module propulsion system. The tests were conducted in the Mojave Desert in California, and confirmed the ability for the new valves to modulate propellant flow and control peak LAE thrust in the event of a launch abort.

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NASA, Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground For Exoplanets

Eight Amateur Astronomers Helped Locate The New Area Of Interest

Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system – a large disk of gas and dust encircling a star known as a circumstellar disk.

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