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Spaceport Cornwall hosted an orbital launch attempt in January 2023 that used Virgin Orbit’s launch system and ended in failure.
Horizon Technologies’ original Amber™ payload was on one of eight smallsats lost in Virgin Orbit’s failed LauncherOne mission on 2023-01-09.
Horizon Technologies received guidance and support from the UK Space Agency following the 2023-01-09 Virgin Orbit launch failure.
Horizon Technologies’ original Amber payload was on one of eight small satellites lost in the Virgin Orbit failed launch on 9 January 2023 when LauncherOne failed to reach the proper orbit.
Amber IOD-3 was originally due to launch with Virgin Orbit in July 2022 but was delayed while the launcher sought permission to fly from the United Kingdom.
NorthStar Earth & Space switched its planned launches to Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit’s failure and expected its satellites to launch on Electron before the end of 2023.
Japanese radar imaging company iQPS switched its launch plans to Rocket Lab earlier in 2023 after Virgin Orbit’s failure.
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson thanked Rocket Lab for taking over the former Virgin Orbit facility and working with the city on job fairs for former Virgin Orbit employees.
Rocket Lab took over the lease and acquired the former Virgin Orbit factory’s production assets, machinery, and equipment in May 2023 for $16,100,000.
Virgin Orbit established the Long Beach facility when it was still a division of Virgin Galactic.
The iQPS satellite QPS-SAR-5 will launch on Rocket Lab's Electron instead of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne due to delays and the bankruptcy of Virgin Orbit.
iQPS originally contracted to launch QPS-SAR-5 on Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne under a contract announced in May 2022.
QPS-SAR-5 was scheduled for launch in early 2023 at the time of the May 2022 contract announcement with Virgin Orbit.
The 19 Slingshot payloads were developed independently and integrated in a couple of weeks prior to launch in July 2022 of the 12-unit cubesat on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket.
Slingshot launched in July 2022 as a 12-unit cubesat on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket.
Virgin Orbit was scheduled to launch Spire’s first 16U cubesat for NorthStar Earth and Space in mid-2023 before Virgin Orbit collapsed into bankruptcy.
Virgin Orbit laid off 675 employees, about 85% of its workforce, in late March 2023 and later filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidated its assets.
The committee required that the government review lessons learned from the Virgin Orbit licensing process and complete the review by September.
Virgin Orbit went bankrupt after failures of its air-launched two-stage vehicle.
Multiple aerospace companies have agreed to acquire Virgin Orbit’s assets out of bankruptcy, including Rocket Lab.