LauncherOne | Start Me Up
Spaceport Cornwall
Air launch to orbit
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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
Start Me Up
7 payloads for government and private customers. This mission is the first launch from the United Kingdom.
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
2023-01-09T23:57:52+0000
Launch failed.
SwGustav
2023-01-09T23:11:03+0000
Drop and ignition confirmed
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-01-09T22:21:28+0000
Updated T-0 post-take off
SwGustav
2023-01-09T21:18:36+0000
Coverage live
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-01-07T17:51:32+0000
Updated NET rocket dropping & ignition time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-01-06T13:36:13+0000
Go for launch.
Nosu
2023-01-04T16:18:25+0000
Targeting January 9
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-15T10:26:50+0000
NET January 2023
Nosu
2022-12-08T08:33:53+0000
NET Late December
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-12-06T15:48:34+0000
NET December 14
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-10-27T13:21:27+0000
NET November
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-30T18:32:32+0000
NET October 29
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-15T02:29:22+0000
Launch unlikely to occur in September 2022 with mission rehearsal and launch license still pending as of September 13
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-07-03T07:14:06+0000
NET September
Nosu
2022-05-25T17:19:09+0000
Targeting August
Jay
2022-04-28T14:29:48+0000
Adding launch
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