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    LauncherOne was a two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed and flown by Virgin Orbit that had operational flights from 2021 to 2023, after being in development...
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  • Virgin Orbit (category Commercial launch service providers)
    market the LauncherOne rocket, which had previously been a project under Virgin Galactic. LauncherOne was a two-stage launch vehicle, air-launched from a...
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  • Enterprise. The company did the early work on the satellite launch development of LauncherOne before this was hived off to a separate company, Virgin Orbit...
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    first stage launch platform (or mothership launch pad) for the air launch stage of the smallsat orbital launch vehicle, the LauncherOne. In 2017, the...
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    unique orbital and launch-timing requirements. In July 2012, Virgin Orbit announced LauncherOne, an orbital launch vehicle designed to launch "smallsat" primary...
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    erector launcher (TEL) is a missile vehicle with an integrated tractor unit that can transport, elevate to a firing position and launch one or more rockets...
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  • one, STORK-3, has been launched on the same day by Virgin Orbit using a LauncherOne rocket. STORK-6 launched on 9 January 2023 with the LauncherOne rocket...
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    carrying a LauncherOne orbital launch vehicle (White Knight Two never carried a LauncherOne rocket on an orbital space launch mission, so this payload figure...
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    capable of launching satellites into orbit.  United States Virgin Orbit successfully achieved orbit on January 17, 2021, using their LauncherOne vehicle...
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  • Virgin Galactic to secure four dedicated launch missions on the LauncherOne system from 2018 with each launch carrying multiple nanosatellites. Through...
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    Stargazer (aircraft) (category Rocket launch sites)
    (aircraft). Scaled Composites White Knight LauncherOne — Virgin Galactic Rocket Cosmic Girl — LauncherOne Carrier Plane Scaled Composites Stratolaunch...
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  • 2012-08-25. develop versions of their smallsat bus optimized to the design of LauncherOne. Krebs, Gunter. "Arabsat 1A, 1B, 1C / Insat 2DT". Gunter's Space Page...
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  • Earth since its launch. A further fourth satellite, STARSHINE 4, was launched aboard the maiden flight of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket on 25 May...
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  • up launch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Launch or launched may refer to: Launch (boat), one of several different sorts of boat Motor launch (naval)...
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    on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024. "LauncherOne: Virgin Orbit reveals why UK's first rocket launch failed as it plans further attempts". Sky News...
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    Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (category Air launch to orbit)
    working on the project. Virgin Orbit also planned to launch small satellites with the LauncherOne from a 747. Orbital ATK dropped its Thunderbolt rocket...
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    Pegasus (rocket) Air launch to orbit Airborne aircraft carrier Rocket sled launch Megascale engineering SpaceShipOne SpaceShipTwo LauncherOne List of Virgin...
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  • Messier, Doug (20 July 2012). "Spaceflight Inc. to Fly Payloads on LauncherOne". Parabolic Arc. Retrieved 7 October 2013. "Spaceflight Inc. Tapped To...
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  • the micrometer range" for at least one year. The cubesat is 30x10x10 cm by size and was launched with the LauncherOne rocket by Virgin Orbit from California...
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    delivered hardware for flight. In January 2021, MiTEE-1 launched to space on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne test flight. The Cooperative High Altitude Rocket Gun...
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    stage launch platform (or mothership launch pad) for the air launch stage of the satellite orbital launch vehicle, the LauncherOne. LauncherOne attempted...
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    performs LauncherOne aircraft flight tests". SpaceNews.com. August 28, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018. Bergin, Chris. "Cosmic Girl takes LauncherOne on its...
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  • currently in development were not considered, such as the Virgin Galactic LauncherOne and the XCOR Aerospace Lynx. DARPA terminated the program in late 2015...
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    CubeSats and each had a maximum budget of $5.6 million. Q-PACE launched on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne as part of the ELaNa 20 mission. LunaH-Map was a 6U CubeSat...
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  • Airport, operating part-time as Mojave Spaceport, is the launch point for SpaceShipOne. SpaceShipOne performed the first privately funded human spaceflight...
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    Brik-II (satellite) (category Spacecraft launched in 2021)
    and observation of the Earth. The satellite was launched on 30 June 2021 by Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne. The Brik-II satellite is named after the first...
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  • Caleb (24 October 2019). "Virgin Orbit to add extra rocket stage to LauncherOne for interplanetary missions". SpaceNews. Retrieved 31 August 2021. O'Callaghan...
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    Soyuz-2-1v   Soyuz-ST   Vega   Antares 230+   H-IIA   Hyperbola-1   LauncherOne   Proton-M   Rocket 3   Simorgh   Others 10 20 30 40 50 60 China France...
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    “the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran”. The image almost certainly came...
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  • part of the Launch Demo 2 mission by Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne. However, Glaze said that, since launch, controllers have yet to make contract with Q-PACE...
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