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Discover how feathering technology is revolutionizing commercial space travel, enabling safer re-entry, lower re-entry temperatures, and minimizing stresses on spacecraft. With commercial flights beginning in 2009, experience a 2-hour journey to space for $200,000. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of feathering, and how this innovation is shaping the future of space travel. Join the ranks of the 500 people traveling to space in 2009 and the projected 50,000 in the next 10 years with this groundbreaking technology.
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1. Feathering technology Enabling commercial space travel
2. Commercial space travel is a reality! Commercial flights starting in 2009
$200,000 for a 2 hours flight
6 passengers, 2 crew members
500 people in 2009 will travel to space
50,000 in next 10 years
3. The old and the new
4. The flight path
5. Feathering of the wings
6. Feathering of the wings
7. Feathering of the wings
8. The flight path
9. Advantages of feathering "This innovation allows the spacecraft to return to the atmosphere care free Burt Rutan
SAFER - Minimises re-entry temp & stresses:
Re-entry for traditional spacecraft - 1650 C
With feathering technique - 260 C
10. Disadvantages of Feathering Shuttlecock re-entry technique viable for suborbital flights only:
Altitude of only 100km
Maximum of 6 mins weightlessness
High price tag
11. Conclusions Virgin Galactic: Commercial space travel has well and truly begun
This is not the end.