Bankruptcy Sale Scatters Virgin Orbit To The Winds

When Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy in April, it was clear the commercial launch provider was in serious trouble. Despite successfully putting four payloads into low Earth orbit, the spin-off of…

Virgin Orbit Pauses Operations, Seeks Funding

It looks as though things may have gone from bad to worse at Virgin Orbit, the satellite carrying spin-off of Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic. After a disappointing la…

Virgin Orbit’s First UK Launch Attempt: What Went Wrong

A month ago there was disappointment as Virgin Orbit’s first attempt at a space launch from the United Kingdom using its converted Boeing 747 airliner platform failed to achieve orbit. Now wi…

Virgin Not-Quite-Orbit-Yet

A country’s first orbital satellite launch from home soil is a proud moment, even when as is the case with Virgin Orbit, it’s not from the soil itself but from a Boeing 747 in the strat…

Britische Weltraummission vorerst gescheitert | DW | 10.01.2023

Erstmals sollte von britischem Boden aus eine Rakete mit Satelliten ins All gebracht werden. Der Start der umgebauten Boeing 747 mit der Rakete erfolgte einwandfrei. Doch dann gab es unerwartet Probleme.