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Start Me Up

LauncherOne

Virgin Orbit

Launch Status
Failure

Mission

Start Me Up

Type: Earth Science
Launch Cost: $12,000,000

7 payloads for government and private customers. This mission is the first launch from the United Kingdom.

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Location

Spaceport Cornwall

Air launch to orbit

51 rockets have launched from Air launch to orbit.

Spaceport Cornwall, Air launch to orbit

Agency

Virgin Orbit – VO

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: VO
  • Administration: President: Dan Hart
  • Founded: 2017
  • Launchers: LauncherOne
  • Country: USA

Virgin Orbit is a company within the Virgin Group which plans to provide launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 to develop the air-launched LauncherOne rocket, launched from Cosmic Girl, which had previously been a project of Virgin Galactic. Based in Long Beach, California, Virgin Orbit has more than 300 employees led by president Dan Hart, a former vice president of government satellite systems at Boeing.

Virgin Orbit focuses on small satellite launch, which is one of three capabilities being focused on by Virgin Galactic. These capabilities are: human spaceflight operations, small satellite launch, and advanced aerospace design, manufacturing, and test

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Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
8 months ago

ALL THE BEST SIR RICHARD.!….