Virgin Orbit is just months away from the first launch of its LauncherOne rocket. The company is currently undergoing an extensive test campaign to ensure that the vehicle will function correctly on its maiden flight. A drop test – part of the captive carry test campaign – is slated to begin by July 23.
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Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne has signed an agreement to launch a SITAEL satellite developed in collaboration…
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While Virgin Galactic prepare to restart test operations with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the company has…
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Virgin Galactic unveils Cosmic Girl, dedicated LauncherOne aircraft
December 4, 2015Virgin Galactic – part of the Virgin corporation headed by Sir Richard Branson – has…
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Due to customer demand, Virgin Galactic claims it has nearly doubled the amount of payload…
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One pilot has died and another seriously injured during a test flight failure of Virgin…
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Space Shuttle veteran Frederick “CJ” Sturckow has joined Virgin Galactic’s commercial flight team. The retired…
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More details about Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipTwo – VSS Enterprise – have been revealed to the…
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British billionaire tycoon Sir Richard Branson has stated that his space travel company, Virgin Galactic,…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket conducted its tenth test flight on Wednesday – marking another…
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Rocket Lab has launched its second mission in just over a month on Sunday. The…
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SpaceX will for the first time launch a Falcon 9 booster on its third flight…
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EuropeanInternationalMars
NASA, international InSight mission nail PERFECT landing on Mars
November 26, 2018NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian…
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Virgin Orbit achieved another major milestone on Sunday, with LauncherOne taken on a captive carry…
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Following Saturday’s Northrop Grumman Innovation System’s (NGIS’s) Antares rocket launch with the NG-10 Cygnus, named…
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Stratolaunch systems continue to progress towards their first launch by completing the first hot-fire tests…
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Spaceflight ships 12 satellites to India for PSLV launch
November 8, 2018Rideshare launch provider “Spaceflight” has announced 12 of it customer satellites have been shipped out…
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Following the failure of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft to deliver Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin and Nick…
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Rocket Lab selects Wallops as first U.S. launch site, readies Electron for November launch
October 17, 2018U.S.-based company Rocket Lab has announced the selection of Wallops at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport…
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InternationalISSRussian
Soyuz FG fails during ascent – Soyuz MS-10 crew safe after ballistic entry abort
October 10, 2018The Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, launched their Soyuz MS-10 crew vehicle with two new…