21 November 2018
First captive carry of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne
... say Virgin Orbit. The company therefore has designs on scaling up launch rates to an unprecedented frequency and its LauncherOne system ‘is a great place to start,’ reports the company’s website. To this end, Virgin Orbit has already begun...
26 May 2020
Virgin Orbit's first orbital test flight fails due to anomaly
... the racetrack, terminal count, and a clean release. After being released from the carrier aircraft, the LauncherOne rocket successfully lighted its booster engine on cue — the first time the company had attempted an in-air...
22 May 2020
Virgin Orbit to attempt first orbital launch starting Sunday
... program carrying a collection of smallsats. Delivering CubeSats and microsatellites to orbit was the impetus behind the creation of LauncherOne says Virgin Orbit, who say that our exploration of space has been limited by expensive and inaccessible...
15 April 2020
Successful test clears the way for Virgin Orbit's first-ever launch
... it can deliver up to 330 kilograms (660 pounds) of payload into a variety of destinations in low-Earth orbit. On a real flight, LauncherOne is released during the pull-up manoeuvre, but Sunday’s demonstration was about the fuel therefore the rocket...
05 December 2015
Virgin Galactic to Use Boeing 747 for LauncherOne Missions
... of the Newton engines we were developing” for LauncherOne, said George Whitesides, chief executive of Virgin Galactic... start on modifying the airplane to serve as the LauncherOne platform. LauncherOne will be attached to a pylon mounted on the ...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... 300 kilograms into a Sun-synchronous orbit. Although LauncherOne has not made any flights into orbit yet, the... The firm, which has said it wants to conduct missions of LauncherOne from the Cornwall Spaceport in Newquay on the southern tip of England...
