How Virgin Orbit Launches Space Rockets From an Airplane

Ever since space exploration became a thing back in the 1960s, rocket launches have generally been performed using something that shoots upwards from a launch pad. Because the method was extensively used over the past decades, it became synonymous with space exploration. Sending hardware and even humans beyond the borders of our own planet will probably forever require vertical launches, because of the immense amount of power needed in s... (continue reading...)