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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by cfreeman on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:09PM (#8540527)
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.

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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by Fuzzwah on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:27PM (#8540626)
I hadn't heard about that, thanks for the info.

I dug up this article:

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/10/08/work-continues-hybrid...

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Re:SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight by cfreeman on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:34PM (#8540665)
Interesting. 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.
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