Virgin Orbit This time, the company is on the agenda with an unsuccessful mission in space. This mission was based in England.
Billionaire Richard Branson founded by Virgin Orbit firm, Boeing 747 It was able to achieve very few space developments in 2022. The company, which wants to change this in 2023, unfortunately started the year very badly. The company does not go to space with a Boeing 747 as part of its space missions, but instead uses a different infrastructure. custom developed Cosmic Girl a named Boeing 747 Raising the commercial satellites to approximately 35-40 thousand feet with the company, the company takes the space under the plane and carries the satellites within its body. LauncherOne with a rocket named This is exactly what was targeted not too long ago, but There was a problem with LauncherOne in the process.
As part of the UK-based mission Cosmic Girl It took off without any problems and reached the specified height. Then when the Atlantic Ocean is reached LauncherOne fired. The rocket left the plane, but had a technical problem on the way and was unable to reach low earth orbit. in the process LauncherOne The nine commercial satellites it carried with it were lost, Cosmic Girl returned without any problem. Melissa Thorpe, president of Spaceport Cornwall, made a statement on this matter. “This is an absolutely devastating situation. We put our heart and soul into this business” said and added: “Everything will be better next time.”
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Virgin OrbitThe rocket takeoffs of ‘s 747 are of great importance in order to make space even more commercial. Because, thanks to this system, satellites can be dropped into low earth orbit very, very cheaply. However, this system is only designed for small satellites. In other words, Virgin Orbit has no intention of competing with SpaceX in the field. Meanwhile Billionaire Richard Branson’s There is another space company. Space tourism focused Virgin Galactic It is also working on taking steps commercially.