Quite frankly, the live broadcast was embarrassing. This is the point where things started to go wrong -
- and yet no one commented on it other than saying telemetry would get lost from time to time as they switch tracking stations. At this point, the speed goes to 0 mph, which probably means the sensor is not working but the altitude keeps dropping in a quite consistent manner (there are a couple of nonsense readings, but the trend is clear). At that moment, I hoped it was some weird live broadcast issue, but the consistent drop in altitude pointed to a failure IMO. The commentators declined to even mention this at the time. It was only later when the Virgin team announced there was an "anomaly" that we knew for certain it had failed, but the evidence had been there for quite a while.
In the meantime, much of the stream seemed to consist of listening to an open microphone. It was a very disappointing performance.
PS. I put a time stamp in the YouTube video but it's not working for me when I click it, it starts the video at the start of the live stream. Go to about 1:59:00 to avoid the less relevant stuff.