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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket and a radical of 9 satellites it was taking to low-Earth orbit burned up successful the ambiance arsenic the motorboat failed
Space 10 January 2023By Alex Wilkins
The LauncherOne rocket astatine Spaceport Cornwall Spaceport Cornwall/Virgin Orbit
The archetypal orbital outer motorboat from the UK took disconnected from Spaceport Cornwall successful Newquay, England but failed to deploy its satellites to orbit. Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket, which took disconnected attached to a Boeing-747 level astatine 10.01pm GMT, began its ascent to orbit aft astir an hr into the flight, but astir 25 minutes aboriginal the launcher “suffered an anomaly” and had to abort its mission. The rocket and its satellites burned up successful Earth’s ambiance connected reentry.
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