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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
Straight Up
Launch contracted by the U.S. Space Force for the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP), with payloads provided by the DoD Space Test Program (STP) as part of the Space Force’s STP-28A mission. It will carry seven satellites from multiple government agencies that are experiments intended to demonstrate novel modular satellite bus, space domain awareness, and adaptive radio frequency technologies. The target orbit is approximately 500 km above the Earth’s surface at 45 degrees inclination.
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
2022-07-02T07:55:05+0000
Launch success
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-07-02T06:54:11+0000
Release, 1st stage ignition
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-07-02T05:18:04+0000
Take-off ~05:40 UTC -> Drop-off ~06:40 UTC
SwGustav
2022-07-01T19:38:15+0000
Setting GO
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-06-30T04:33:13+0000
Scrubbed due to propellant temperature issues
Nosu
2022-06-29T21:02:42+0000
Pushing T-0 to account for takeoff and climb
Nosu
2022-06-27T08:36:12+0000
GO for launch
Nosu
2022-06-09T07:22:56+0000
Adding launch window
Nosu
2022-05-09T14:52:54+0000
Adding launch NET June 30 UTC
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2022-07-02T08:21:24+0000
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Virgin Orbit launches Space Force mission
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Virgin Orbit launches seven satellites for US Space Force and NASA
2022-06-29T23:51:05+0000
NASASpaceflight
Virgin Orbit delays launch of seven satellites for US Space Force and NASA
2022-06-29T01:01:19+0000
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Virgin Orbit ready for first night launch on Space Force mission
2022-06-28T23:11:23+0000
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