Virgin Orbit suspects that a $100 part was responsible for the Jan. 9 failure of the LauncherOne rocket. “Everything points to, right now, a filter that was clearly there when we assembled the rocket but was not there as the second stage
Start Me Up: Virgin Orbit rocket takes flight from Cornwall Questions were tonight being asked about why the UK’s first-ever space launch went ahead despite warnings that the project was not ready, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal. The botched Virgin Orbit launch at
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,
Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart said: “After ensuring that every technical aspect is sound and every regulation and code has been satisfied, it is gratifying to see this historic endeavour on the verge of coming to fruition. “This launch represents the opening