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They just switched to a new liquid powered engine because their hybrid engine was not powerful enough. This was the first powered test flight with their new eng
by cfreeman 12y ago
They just switched to a new liquid powered engine because their hybrid engine was not powerful enough. This was the first powered test flight with their new engine, and given the information so far it sounds like it exploded in-flight. Very, very, tragic.
edit: I'm wrong. They simply switched to a new type of fuel for their hybrid engine.
- Fuzzwah 12y agoI hadn't heard about that, thanks for the info. I dug up this article: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/10/08/work-continues-hybrid-rubber-engine-spaceshiptwo/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/10/08/work-continues-hybrid...
- cfreeman 12y agoInteresting. I might actually be wrong about the details then. Maybe the new engines they were using is actually a new type of hybrid (nylon)? I know for a fact that they are working on their own liquid engine, but perhaps it wasn't involved in this crash.