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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.
Jun 30, 2021 · 30 June 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.
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.
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.
Jan 13, 2022 · by Greg Rose. 13 January 2022. Virgin Orbit successfully deployed all seven customer satellites onboard its LauncherOne rocket into orbit during its latest mission.
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Jan 29, 2021 · 29 January 2021. Virgin Orbit has done what many thought was impossible: launching a rocket from under the wing of a modified 747 airplane fly to space and drop satellites into Earth’s orbit. But what do customers want to send to space and why? Virgin Orbit.
May 24, 2023 · 24 May 2023. By Peter Hoskins,Business reporter. Ministry of Defence. Sir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has shut down, just months after a major mission failure. It comes weeks...
