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VIrgin Galactic Completes First Suborbital Hop with Ful l Contingent of Passengers

submitted by dominus_stercae to spaceflight 2.8 yearsJul 13, 2021 07:28:11 ago (+3/-0)     (youtu.be)

https://youtu.be/ZPrB3WvnZpE

Crossed the US definition for the boundary to space, but not the FAI's Karman Line. Still, passengers experienced around 3 minutes of zero G.


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[ - ] BoraxTheFungarian 1 point 2.8 yearsJul 13, 2021 10:28:16 ago (+1/-0)

Looks like they went really high up and the coming back down made them weightless… Also, the earth looked flat save the distortion from the lenses of the cameras… notice the shots where the curvature goes the other way.



[ - ] dominus_stercae [op] 0 points 2.8 yearsJul 13, 2021 11:46:00 ago (+0/-0)*

Once the motor shut down they were in free fall and thus weightless. That continued for something like three minutes until descending back into the thicker air, where deceleration reintroduced G forces. Finally, constant descent velocity left them back at 1G.

The cabin cameras all use wide angle lenses which normally introduce such distortions. Note the forward facing external camera does not distort. That's typical of rectilinear lens use.