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The first flight of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne on 2020-05-25 failed to reach orbit when a propellant line broke seconds after ignition of the rocket’s first stage engine.
Virgin Orbit holds a Venture Class Launch Services contract, originally awarded in 2015, for a launch of a group of cubesats that will be one of the first operational missions for LauncherOne.
Virgin Galactic’s smallsat launch business was spun off into a separate company, Virgin Orbit.
Virgin Orbit’s first LauncherOne launch on 2020-05-25 failed to reach orbit and carried a demonstration payload only.
Virgin Orbit, the U.K. Space Agency, and Spaceport Cornwall held an online suppliers conference on 2020-06-04 to provide an update about plans to operate from Cornwall Airport Newquay.
Enabling Virgin Orbit launches from Cornwall requires work on U.K. launch regulations that would allow horizontal launch systems.
Virgin Orbit set a price of about $12,000,000 per LauncherOne launch prior to entering service.
Virgin Orbit established a wholly owned U.S.-incorporated subsidiary, VOX Space, to work with national security customers.
Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl, a modified Boeing 747, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 2:56 p.m. Eastern on the day of the launch.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne failed to reach orbit in its first launch attempt on 2020-05-25.
Virgin Galactic spun out the LauncherOne project into a separate company, Virgin Orbit, in March 2017 based in Long Beach, California.
The coronavirus pandemic interrupted Virgin Orbit’s launch preparations and caused the company to change mission control layout and revise factory work procedures to operate in a COVID-19 environment.
Virgin Orbit tested a LauncherOne test article in a drop test in July 2019.
Launching from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam will allow Virgin Orbit to support launches to both equatorial and polar orbits.
Virgin Orbit will make the first flight of its LauncherOne air-launched vehicle as soon as 2020-05-24.
Virgin Orbit plans to perform its inaugural LauncherOne mission on 2020-05-24 with Cosmic Girl, the company’s modified Boeing 747, flying out of the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
Virgin Orbit decided that launching LauncherOne from Guam could serve all orbital inclinations.
VOX Space, a subsidiary of Virgin Orbit, has Department of Defense contracts and is preparing to conduct its first orbital flight.
Virgin Orbit completed a captive carry test flight of its LauncherOne system on 2020-04-12.
Virgin Orbit characterized the 2020-04-12 captive carry as a complete, end-to-end launch rehearsal of the aircraft and ground operations except for using liquid nitrogen instead of LauncherOne’s operational liquid oxygen propellant.