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Virgin Orbit suffers in-flight anomaly during historic first mission from UK

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   A repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft, named Cosmic Girl,
   carrying Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket, takes off from Spaceport
   Cornwall at Cornwall Airport, Newquay, England, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023.
   The plane will carry the rocket to 35,000 feet where it will be
   released over the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Ireland, as part of
   the Start Me Up mission and the first rocket launch from U.K. The
   rocket will take multiple small satellites, with a variety of civil and
   defence applications, into orbit. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

   Virgin Orbit's attempt to make history by launching the first set of
   satellites from British soil Monday night did not go as planned,
   resulting in the loss of all nine satellites on board.

   Cosmic Girl, a modified 747, taxied toward history as it took off at
   5:02 p.m. ET from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, England, hoping to
   successfully christen a new spaceport. Once it reached 35,000 feet in
   the air, the aircraft deployed a rocket, called LauncherOne, which
   would then launch its payloads into space.

   Tucked inside LauncherOne's payload fairing were nine small satellites,
   representing seven different customers. The two-stage rocket is
   specially designed to horizontally launch small satellites into orbit.
   Rather than a traditional rocket, which lifts off vertically from a
   launch pad, the LauncherOne is engineered to be strapped to a plane and
   ignited at a certain altitude before depositing its payloads into their
   designated orbits.

   The rocket's first and second stages separated as planned, with the
   rocket's upper stage completing a nearly five-minute burn before
   transitioning into a long coast ahead of payload deployment. After
   ignition, it soon became clear that something wasn't right.

   "It appears that LauncherOne has suffered an anomaly, which will
   prevent us from making orbit on this mission," Virgin Orbit's Chris
   Relf, director of systems engineering and verification, said during a
   webcast of the mission. Details were not immediately available, but
   company officials did share that the anomaly resulted in the loss of
   all nine payloads on board the rocket.

   LauncherOne carried nine small satellites inside its payload fairing,
   including payloads for the British Ministry of Defense, the British
   government, a Polish Cubesat, a satellite for the Sultanate of Oman and
   the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

   The mission, called "Start Me Up," earns its name from the song by
   legendary British band The Rolling Stones.

   "I can't think of a more perfect name for the first launch from the
   U.K.," said Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire who founded the Virgin
   Atlantic airline and the Virgin Galactic aerospace company. Branson is
   also part owner of Virgin Orbit.

   According to Branson, all of Virgin Orbit's launches have been named to
   recognize iconic moments in Virgin's long musical history, such as when
   the company signed The Rolling Stones. To date, Virgin Orbit has five
   launches under its belt, all of which have lifted off from its
   U.S.-based spaceport in California.

   Following an unsuccessful first test flight in May 2020, the subsequent
   four missions were successful, with the company deploying 33 satellites
   into orbit. Unfortunately, the company adds another failed flight to
   its records.

   The technique of horizontally launching a spacecraft from a rocket that
   was strapped to an airliner was developed more than 20 years ago as a
   low-cost means of launching smaller satellites. Traditional rockets
   were too expensive to launch certain payloads, and this provided a new
   means of reaching space.

   However, with small satellite launches on the rise, this could prove to
   be the first of many launches for the U.K. and Virgin Orbit. This type
   of mission offers flexibility to launch from anywhere that has an
   airstrip and can guarantee the satellites make it to their intended
   orbits. It also offers another option for European customers that have
   faced Ariane 6 delays, the grounding of Vega rockets after a failed
   launch attempt and the loss of access to Russian Soyuz vehicles
   following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

   "When you look at the way that the low Earth orbit economy is
   developing, it's the place that everybody is looking to put their
   satellites, whether it be for climate change, observation or urban
   development, or for security purposes," said Ian Annett, deputy CEO of
   the U.K. Space Agency, ahead of the launch. "The ability to access LEO
   with micro-launches is definitely not a static market -- it is one that
   is continuing to grow."

   To that end, it took 20 million pounds ($24 million) to transform the
   tiny Newquay airport into Spaceport Cornwall. "The foundations were
   already here," Melissa Thorpe, CEO of Spaceport Cornwall, said ahead of
   Monday's launch. "We have one of the longest runways in the U.K., and
   just the team to turn it into a spaceport."

   Thorpe also said that the team worked to reinforce taxiways and build a
   Space Systems Integration Facility where customers could mate their
   respective satellites to the launcher.

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   But Spaceport Cornwall is just one of seven locations across the U.K.
   that the country's space agency awarded funding to in 2017 as part of
   an effort to develop spaceport sites specifically for launching small
   payloads into low-Earth orbit. Other launch facilities include one in
   the north of Scotland as well as the Shetland Islands.

   Thorpe says that despite the failure of this inaugural launch from the
   U.K., it could still inspire other European countries to invest in
   spaceports and join the aerospace industry. Virgin Orbit officials have
   said that the company wants to establish itself as having the ability
   to launch from anywhere a 747 can land.

   But in order to do that, it needs to prove it can successfully launch
   from multiple locations.

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