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Launched 2022-01-13 22:52 UTCMojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to orbit
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Worldwide
3rd
orbital launch attempt in 2022
Virgin Orbit
1st
launch this year
Mojave Air and Space Port
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
197 d 8 h
since the pad's previous launch
Mission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigation experiments as well as two Earth-observation nanosatellites from Polish company SatRevolution.
Launch Provider
Commercial · United States of America · Founded 2017 · President Dan Hart
Virgin Orbit is a company within the Virgin Group which plans to provide launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 to develop the air-launched LauncherOne rocket, launched from Cosmic Girl, which had previously been a project of Virgin Galactic. Based in Long Beach, California, Virgin Orbit has more than 300 employees led by president Dan Hart, a former vice president of government satellite systems at Boeing. Virgin Orbit focuses on small satellite launch, which is one of three capabilities being focused on by Virgin Galactic. These capabilities are: human spaceflight operations, small satellite launch, and advanced aerospace design, manufacturing, and test
Launches
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Successful
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Upcoming
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scheduled
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating the window
SwGustav
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Now targeting January 13.
Jay
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Updated launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET January 12
Jay
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Launch now planned in January 2022.
Cosmic_Penguin
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New launch date/time per marine space closure notices, to be officially confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Mentioning of this launch in USCG local warning messages has been removed.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch date and window updated per USCG marine space closure notices.
Cosmic_Penguin
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New mission name “Above The Clouds” confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin
Height
16m
Diameter
1.6m
To low Earth orbit
500kg
Liftoff thrust
327kN
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