Virgin Orbit’s 747, named Cosmic Girl, launched PTI from California at about 10:30 a.m. with a rocket called LauncherOne, which is located under the plane’s left wing. The aircraft flew over the Pacific Ocean before the rocket broke free, releasing the LauncherOne and allowing it to turn on its rocket motor and propel itself to over 17,000 mph, rapidly orbiting the Earth. It was enough to do.
The rocket flew a group of small satellites on behalf of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatlites, or Ilana, program that allows high school and college students to design and assemble small satellites that NASA would then fly into space. Pays to launch. The nine small satellites that flew from Virgin Orbit on Sunday included temperature-monitoring satellites from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a satellite that would study how small particles collide in space from the University of Central Florida, and an experimental radiation detection Walla University of Louisiana at Lausanne.
About four hours after takeoff on Saturday, Virgin Orbit confirmed in a tweet that all satellites were “successfully deployed to our target orbit.”
The successful mission makes Virgin Orbit only the third so-called “new space” company – startup and startups hoping to overwhelm the traditional industry with new and innovative products – after SpaceX and Rocket Lab. The breakthrough paves the way for Virgin Orbit to launch satellites for a host of customers already lined up, including NASA, military and private sector companies Are those that use satellites for commercial purposes.
After the 2020 launch effort, the company said “launching from Earth into space is mentally difficult.”
“We are grateful and fortunate that most of our peers have approved their preventive quarantines, allowing us to proceed with the pre-launch operation on 31 December,” with even more extreme measures to protect health with. And the safety of our team.
Virgin Orbit, like other space technology companies in the United States, is allowed to continue operations during the epidemic because the government considered the space sector part of the country’s “critical infrastructure” in March. As one industry group argued, the region’s commercial activity has also been linked with important US national security projects and NASA programs.
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