{"id":439173,"date":"2021-09-30T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T03:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439173"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T04:17:27","slug":"virgin-galactic-says-us-faa-has-cleared-it-for-further-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virgin-galactic-says-us-faa-has-cleared-it-for-further-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic says US FAA has cleared it for further flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder Richard Branson aboard.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it was advised by the FAA that corrective actions proposed by Virgin Galactic have been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>A larger area will be designated as protected airspace to ensure there is room for a variety of possible flight trajectories during spaceflight missions, a company statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic said it will incorporate additional steps in its flight procedures to ensure real-time mission notifications to FAA air traffic control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder Richard Branson aboard. The company said it was advised by the FAA that corrective actions proposed by Virgin Galactic have been accepted. A larger area will be designated as protected airspace to ensure there is room for a variety of possible flight trajectories during spaceflight missions, a company statement said. Virgin Galactic said it will incorporate additional steps in its flight procedures to ensure real-time mission notifications [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439173","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=439173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}