LauncherOne | Above the Clouds
Mojave Air and Space Port
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Virgin Orbit
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
Above the Clouds
Mission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigation experiments as well as two Earth-observation nanosatellites from Polish company SatRevolution.
LauncherOne
Height 16.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 327 kN
Diameter 1.60 Meters
Mass To LEO 500 kg
Liftoff Mass 30 Tonnes
Launch Success 4
Consecutive Success 4
Maiden Flight 2020-05-25
Launch Failures 2
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-01-13T23:57:33+0000
Launch success.
SwGustav
2022-01-13T16:37:51+0000
Updating the window
Jay
2022-01-11T23:33:28+0000
Now targeting January 13.
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-12-29T00:37:09+0000
Updated launch time.
Jay
2021-12-23T21:23:25+0000
NET January 12
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-12-21T01:17:51+0000
Launch now planned in January 2022.
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-12-09T15:07:08+0000
New launch date/time per marine space closure notices, to be officially confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-11-30T17:51:40+0000
Mentioning of this launch in USCG local warning messages has been removed.
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-11-11T03:18:48+0000
Launch date and window updated per USCG marine space closure notices.
Cosmic_Penguin
2021-11-09T14:06:43+0000
New mission name “Above The Clouds” confirmed.
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