{"id":434021,"date":"2021-09-03T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434021"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:40:00","slug":"virgin-galactic-space-mission-flew-outside-designated-trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virgin-galactic-space-mission-flew-outside-designated-trajectory\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic space mission flew outside designated trajectory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A yellow warning light, followed by a red: Richard Branson&#8217;s July 11 voyage to space experienced cockpit warnings about its rocket-powered ascent that could have jeopardized the mission, according to a new report by The New Yorker. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the US Federal Aviation Administration confirmed in a statement to AFP it was probing the flight because it had deviated from its planned trajectory. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During its July 11, 2021 flight, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo vehicle deviated from its Air Traffic Control clearance as it returned to Spaceport America,&#8221; the space base in New Mexico leased by the company. &#8220;The FAA investigation is ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A yellow warning light, followed by a red: Richard Branson&#8217;s July 11 voyage to space experienced cockpit warnings about its rocket-powered ascent that could have jeopardized the mission, according to a new report by The New Yorker. On Thursday, the US Federal Aviation Administration confirmed in a statement to AFP it was probing the flight because it had deviated from its planned trajectory. &#8220;During its July 11, 2021 flight, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo vehicle deviated from its Air Traffic Control clearance as it returned to Spaceport America,&#8221; the space base in New Mexico leased by the company. &#8220;The FAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}