{"id":56676,"date":"2021-09-13T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/virgin-galactic-delays-next-flight-due-to-component-issue\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:56:05","slug":"virgin-galactic-delays-next-flight-due-to-component-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/virgin-galactic-delays-next-flight-due-to-component-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic Delays Next Flight Due to Component Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgin Galactic<\/strong> has delayed its next test flight \u201cUnity 23\u201d with the <strong>Italian Air Force<\/strong> until mid-October due to a component issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Monday, Virgin Galactic said a third-party supplier notified the company of a potential manufacturing defect in a component of the flight control actuation system. Virgin Galactic does not yet know whether the defect affects its vehicles or what repair work may be needed. The company is conducting inspections with the vendor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue is unrelated to the Unity 22 flight or the current FAA matter, which is focused on air traffic control clearance and communications,\u201d Virgin Galactic said in the statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Federal Aviation Administration<\/strong> is investigating an issue with Sir Richard Branson\u2019s July flight that the flight went out of its designated airspace. This was first reported by The New Yorker, that the flight experienced a red light safety warning and the FAA is investigating the fight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Branson appeared at SATELLITE 2021 last week and spoke about his vision for the future of commercial spaceflight and space launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has delayed its next test flight \u201cUnity 23\u201d with the Italian Air Force until mid-October due to a component issue.&nbsp; In a statement issued Monday, Virgin Galactic said a third-party supplier notified the company of a potential manufacturing defect in a component of the flight control actuation system. Virgin Galactic does not yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}