'Beautifully executed mission': Virgin Orbit reaches space with mid-air rocket launch

Virgin Orbit on Sunday launched its maiden rocket to with 10 nasatellites and successfully deployed paylos into target orbit,  official release confirmed. launch was little different from rmal as it used a Boeing 747 aircraft to send LauncherOne rocket into orbit. Virgin Orbit teamed up with NASA to send CubeSats to as y all belonged to American ncy. 

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First commercial interaction with NASA

Virgin Orbit, marketing itself as "premier dedicated small satellite launch service", is w capable of deploying satellites up to 500 kilograms into Earth's orbit, which company demonstrated with its LauncherOne test flight. 747, which Virgin Orbit calls Cosmic Girl, took off from Mojave Air and Port at approximately 10:50 am local time on January 17. After aircraft released LauncherOne, two-st rocket ignited and powered itself to orbit.  Sunday's flight marked many historical firsts as or orbital-class, air-launched, liquid-fueled rocket h successfully reached before yesterday's launch.

"A new gateway to has just sprung open! That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team’s talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity. Even in face of a global pandemic, we’ve maintained a laser focus on fully demonstrating every element of this revolutionary launch system. That effort paid off today with a beautifully executed mission, and we couldn’t be happier," Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart said in a statement.

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paylos launched into were part of NASA's Educational Launch of Nasatellites (ELaNa) mission. paylos were launched in a mission called Launch Demo 2. Launch Demo 1 to test launching capability of Cosmic Girl was done earlier in 2020, validating that LauncherOne could be successfully air-launched from modified 747 aircraft. This was first time NASA and Virgin Orbit interacted commercially. 

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