LauncherOne Family rocket variant.
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Virgin Orbit completed four consecutive successful LauncherOne launches from Mojave Air and Space Port between January 2021 and July 2022.
The rocket for the 2023-01-09 LauncherOne mission was deployed from a Boeing 747 aircraft and completed a first stage burn as planned.
Virgin Orbit designs and manufactures its LauncherOne rockets in Long Beach, California and air-launches them from the wing of its converted Boeing 747-400 named Cosmic Girl.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is an air-launched rocket that deploys from a modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft at high altitude.
Virgin Orbit provided additional details on the likely cause of the LauncherOne failure that occurred on 2023-01-09.
Virgin Orbit experienced a LauncherOne mission failure from the United Kingdom on 2023-01-09, that prevented the vehicle from reaching orbit.
iQPS originally contracted to launch QPS-SAR-5 on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne under a contract announced in May 2022.