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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEAir launch to orbit
Mission
Mission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigation experiments as well as two Earth-observation nanosatellites from Polish company SatRevolution.
- Launch vehicle
- LauncherOne
- Mission type
- Communications
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Mojave Air and Space Port
- Provider
- Virgin Orbit
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
LauncherOne
LauncherOne is a two stage orbital launch vehicle developed by Virgin Orbit since 2007. It is an air launch to orbit rocket, designed to launch "smallsat" payloads of 300 kilograms (660 lb) into a Sun-synchronous orbit, following air launch from a carrier aircraft at high altitude.
- Height
- 16 m
- Diameter
- 1.6 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 6
- First flight
- 2020-05-25
Recorded timing
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2h 30m windowPublished target
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Launch site & orbit
Air launch to orbit
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Launch site & orbit
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