{"id":60715,"date":"2020-01-08T17:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/virgin-galactics-second-spaceship-hits-weight-on-wheels-milestone\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T17:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T09:19:51","slug":"virgin-galactics-second-spaceship-hits-weight-on-wheels-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/virgin-galactics-second-spaceship-hits-weight-on-wheels-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic\u2019s Second Spaceship Hits \u2018Weight on Wheels\u2019 Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Virgin Galactic<\/b> has reached the \u201cWeight on Wheels\u201d milestone in the build of its second commercial spaceship, the company announced Tuesday. All major structural elements of the vehicle were assembled, and the vehicle deployed its main landing gear and carried its own weight for the first time, a sign of progress for Virgin Galactic\u2019s space vehicle fleet by subsidiary <b>The Spaceship Company<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The team will now work to connect the vehicle\u2019s integrated systems, including the flight control systems from fuselage to tail booms, as well as completing the final structural closeouts. As this work is completed, the spaceship will be positioned in the hangar for the start of integrated vehicle ground testing, a precursor to the start of its flight test program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlight on Wheels is an important milestone because it gets us closer to having an operational fleet of spaceships. This is a critical milestone in the build of any airplane or any spaceship because it signifies major structural assembly is complete. It allows \u2026 us to start to prepare the vehicle for its ground testing,\u201d Spaceship Company President Enrico Palermo said in a video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has reached the \u201cWeight on Wheels\u201d milestone in the build of its second commercial spaceship, the company announced Tuesday. All major structural elements of the vehicle were assembled, and the vehicle deployed its main landing gear and carried its own weight for the first time, a sign of progress for Virgin Galactic\u2019s space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60716,"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-60715","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\/60715"}],"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=60715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}