Virgin Orbit has announced that its rocket carrying nine small satellites was destroyed in the first attempt at a space launch from British soil due to a so-called “premature shutdown”. Richard Branson’s space company said on Thursday that the upper stage of
Virgin Orbit has begun investigating the failure of yesterday’s rocket launch — but have vowed to “return to orbit” as soon as the root cause has been identified and corrected. The initial stages of the so-called Start Me Up mission went smoothly,
The findings of the research have been criticised by the Liberal Democrats who commissioned the survey and called the results a “national scandal”. According to the party, the research shows the consequences of “mismanagement and neglect” of local health services by the