Virgin Orbit

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Virgin Orbit is a company in the Virgin Group that will provide a for small satellites to be put into space. The company was made in 2017 to create the LauncherOne rocket, which would be launched from an airplane.

They currently have have made one try to go to space on May 25, 2020, which did not work.[1] They will try again no earlier than December 19, 2020[2]

Other Websites[change | change source]

Virgin Orbit's Website Archived 2018-04-05 at the Wayback Machine

References[change | change source]

  1. "Virgin Orbit's first launch demo flight ends abruptly after rocket release". Engadget. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  2. "Announcing the Window for Launch Demo 2". Virgin Orbit. 2020-11-30. Archived from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-15.