Richard Branson ends Virgin Orbit operations after UK space mission failure
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has announced it will be shutting down.
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Virgin Orbit
Defunct American aerospace company
Virgin Orbit was a company within the Virgin Group that provided launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 as a spin-off of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture to develop and market the LauncherOne rocket, which had previously been a project under Virgin Galactic. LauncherOne is an air-launched two-stage launch vehicle capable of delivering 300 kg of payload to low Earth orbit.
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