{"id":13707,"date":"2021-10-15T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=13707"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:20:27","slug":"virgin-galactic-delays-commercial-space-travel-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/virgin-galactic-delays-commercial-space-travel-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic Delays Commercial Space Travel Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Space company Virgin Galactic Holdings is postponing its commercial space service until the fourth quarter of 2022 and will not conduct another planned test flight this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last September 2, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had prohibited Virgin Galactic from flying its SpaceShipTwo before a report on the flight of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane that took British billionaire Richard Branson to the edge of space was complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Branson was one of six Virgin Galactic employees who took part in the flight in July and shot more than 50 miles into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 29, the FAA discontinued its investigation into Virgin Galactic Unity 22&#8217;s July 11 launch mishap, which deviated from its assigned airspace on descent, and lifted a grounding order it had implemented earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virgin Galactic had said it was planning another SpaceShipTwo flight from New Mexico, Unity 23, subject to technical problems and weather, and the company expected to &#8220;open its flight window for Unity 23 is towards the middle of October.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/space-exploration-virgin-galactic\/virgin-galactic-to-delay-commercial-space-travel-service-idUSKBN2H42M5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic Holdings is postponing its commercial space service until the fourth quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13723,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions\/13723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}