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Jun 30, 2021 · Enter Virgin Orbit. Like the satellites its customers are flying, its launch system is light, fast, flexible, and affordable. Virgin Orbit uses a 747 airplane and a runway rather than a launch pad - this is a route to space that can be made from any airport in the world.
Jun 30, 2021 · Virgin Orbit has successfully completed its second mission to space, deploying all seven customer satellites onboard into orbit. The picture-perfect mission, named Tubular Bells: Part One in homage to the first album released by Virgin Records, was globally livestreamed for everyone to watch along at home.
Virgin Orbit was a company within the Virgin Group that provided launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 as a spin-off of Richard Branson 's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture to develop and market the LauncherOne rocket, which had previously been a project under Virgin Galactic.
Aug 23, 2021 · 23 August 2021. Virgin Orbit has announced it will become a publicly traded company. We've launched rockets to space from the wing of a jet. We've delivered commercial, civil, & nat'l security satellites to their target orbits from the end of a runway. And we're just getting started. Now, we're planning to go public on @nasdaq.
Jun 30, 2021 · Virgin Orbit successfully launched a payload of satellites to space on Wednesday for its debut commercial mission from Southern California, five months after the company first reached orbit...
Jun 30, 2021 · Virgin Orbit's retrofitted Boeing 747 airplane, with a rocket affixed beneath the wing, takes off from California ahead of launch. Virgin Orbit. The company’s first successful orbital...
Jul 2, 2022 · Virgin Orbit launched a rocket carrying seven satellites from California’s Mojave Air and Space Port early Saturday morning at 1:49 AM ET (10:49PM local), marking the small satellite...
Jan 28, 2022 · Virgin Orbit has been selected by NASA’s Launch Services Program to provide launch services for its Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated Rideshare (VADR) missions. “This contract award is a great step forward for commercial space,” said Dan Hart, CEO of Virgin Orbit.
May 24, 2023 · Virgin Orbit, the beleaguered satellite launch company that filed for bankruptcy close to two months ago, said it has agreed to sell key assets worth over $35 million to three aerospace companies...
May 24, 2023 · Sir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has shut down, just months after a major mission failure. It comes weeks after the firm set up to launch satellites paused operations to...
