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The U.K. Space Agency plans to invest in facilities at a British airport to support Virgin Orbit launch operations.
The Royal Air Force is partnering with Virgin Orbit to support the small satellite project.
Virgin Orbit expects to perform its first orbital launch later 2019, and industry sources expect Virgin Orbit to be ready to attempt a launch in late summer or early fall.
Virgin Orbit’s Boeing 747 carrier aircraft took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port at 11:43 a.m. Eastern carrying a full-sized LauncherOne rocket filled with water rather than propellants.
Virgin Orbit performed a drop test of its LauncherOne air launch system on 2019-07-10.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the city of Wroclaw, the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography, and Virgin Orbit have expressed interest in cooperating with SatRevolution on the REC project.
SatRevolution signed a letter of intent with Virgin Orbit to cooperate on satellite launches.
Vox Space will use Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne air-launched rocket, released from a Boeing 747 mothership, for a planned launch later in 2019.
The 2015 contract included options for an additional 100 launches at $6,000,000 per launch, creating potential Virgin Orbit revenue between $234,000,000 and $834,000,000 under the agreement with OneWeb.
OneWeb agreed in 2015 to pay Virgin Orbit $234 million, or $6,000,000 per launch, to loft its satellites one or two at a time using Virgin Orbit’s air-launched LauncherOne vehicle.
OneWeb sent Virgin Orbit $22,360,000 in July 2018, approximately $1,260,000 more than it owed in past-due payments and late fees at that time.
Virgin Orbit is suing OneWeb for refusing to pay a termination fee after OneWeb canceled all but the initial four of 39 launches it ordered from Virgin Orbit in 2015 to fill gaps in a planned constellation of at least 648 broadband satellites.
Virgin Orbit asserts that OneWeb still owes $46,320,000 related to the canceled launches.
Virgin Orbit and OneWeb entered into a launch services agreement on 2015-05-20 that called for four initial firm launches to start in 2017 and 35 remaining firm launches to start in 2018.
Virgin Orbit agreed to freeze escalating termination fees at a flat $70,000,000 through 2018-06-15 while negotiations over a revised contract continued.
After accounting for the July 2018 payment and the prior $26,250,000 paid, OneWeb still owes Virgin Orbit $46.32 million, according to Virgin Orbit’s complaint.
Virgin Orbit filed a breach of contract lawsuit seeking $46,320,000 plus legal fees and past-due interest.
LauncherOne is an air-launched launch vehicle developed by Virgin Orbit that the company expected to debut in 2018.
The U.K. Space Agency and Cornwall Council are providing up to £20 million to fund development of facilities and operational capabilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay to allow Virgin Orbit to carry out launches using its LauncherOne system.
U.K. Space Agency and Cornwall Council plan to invest in facilities at Cornwall Airport Newquay (Spaceport Cornwall) to support Virgin Orbit launch operations.