{"id":71594,"date":"2016-03-18T23:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l-3-receives-virgin-galactics-cosmic-girl-747-aircraft-for-launcherone-support-modification-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:41:33","slug":"l-3-receives-virgin-galactics-cosmic-girl-747-aircraft-for-launcherone-support-modification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l-3-receives-virgin-galactics-cosmic-girl-747-aircraft-for-launcherone-support-modification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"L-3 Receives Virgin Galactic\u2019s \u2018Cosmic Girl\u2019 747 Aircraft for LauncherOne Support Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 03-18-2016] <b>Virgin Galactic<\/b>\u2019s <b>Boeing <\/b>747-400 carrier aircraft for its LauncherOne small satellite launch service, nicknamed \u201cCosmic Girl,\u201d has arrived at <b>L-3<\/b>\u2019s platform integration facilities for its next phase of modifications. The aircraft completed a heavy maintenance check prior to its arrival. Once L-3\u2019s modifications are complete, Cosmic Girl will be able to carry the LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, partially leveraging the position frequently used by 747s to ferry additional jet engines.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic competitively selected L-3 for the modification work on LauncherOne\u2019s dedicated \u201cmothership.\u201d The company\u2019s modifications, which began last year, mainly involve strengthening the wing to carry the LauncherOne rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The<b> <\/b>Boeing<b> <\/b>747s aircraft have supported a variety of air-launch and ferrying missions, including the Space Shuttle Enterprise test flight program, <b>NASA<\/b>\u2019s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft program, the <b>Pratt &amp; Whitney <\/b>flying test bed, and ferry flight of the X-45 Phantom Ray. Virgin Galactic selected the vehicle for its robust carrying capacity, operational flexibility, long range, ability to operate in many kinds of weather, global maintenance support personnel, robust spare parts supply chain, and its track record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 03-18-2016] Virgin Galactic\u2019s Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft for its LauncherOne small satellite launch service, nicknamed \u201cCosmic Girl,\u201d has arrived at L-3\u2019s platform integration facilities for its next phase of modifications. The aircraft completed a heavy maintenance check prior to its arrival. Once L-3\u2019s modifications are complete, Cosmic Girl will be able to carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71596,"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-71594","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\/71594"}],"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=71594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}