Virgin Orbit’s Start Me Up UK Mission Reaches Space and Then Fails

Mixed feelings must have engulfed the people overseeing the Virgin Orbit Start Me Up mission from British Spaceport Cornwall, as the endeavor meant to put satellites in orbit from UK ground for the first time departed and reached space successfully, but failed to get to the assigned orbit. Spaceport Cornwall is what a portion of the Cornwall Airport in South West England is now called, given its new nature: to support space launches perfo... (continue reading...)