Virgin Orbit - LauncherOne / Tubular Bells: Part One patch.
June 30, 2021
Virgin Orbit “Cosmic Girl” Boeing 747 aircraft
For Virgin Orbit’s Tubular Bells: Part One mission, the “Cosmic Girl” aircraft took off from Mojave Air and Spaceport in California on 30 June 2021, at 13:50 UTC (06:50 PDT).
LauncherOne launches “Tubular Bells: Part One”
“Cosmic Girl” traveled off the Pacific coast to about 9.6 km (31500ft) in altitude, then released the LauncherOne rocket that launched 7 satellites into orbit, at 14:47 UTC (07:47 PDT).
Virgin Orbit “Cosmic Girl” Boeing 747 aircraft LauncherOne (rocket) launch
Mission payloads:
- The U.S. Department of Defense, which is launching three CubeSat sets as part of the DoD Space Test Program’s (STP) Rapid Agile Launch (RALI) Initiative. This launch, also known as STP-27VPA, was awarded to Virgin Orbit subsidiary VOX Space by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an organization working to accelerate the adoption of commercial technology into the U.S. military to strengthen national security.
- The Royal Netherlands Air Force, which is launching the Netherlands’ first military satellite, a CubeSat called BRIK II, built and integrated by Innovative Solutions in Space, with contributions from the University of Oslo, the Delft University of Technology, and Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre.
- SatRevolution, which is launching the first two optical satellites, STORK-4 and STORK-5 (A.K.A. MARTA), of the company’s 14-satellite STORK constellation.
LauncherOne rocket onboard camera during “Tubular Bells: Part One” mission
Related add-on for Flight Simulator X (FSX):
Boeing 747-400 Virgin Orbit for FSX. Image & Add-on by Orbiter.ch Aerospace / Roland Berga. (Free) Add-on link: https://simulators.jimdo.com/
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Virgin Orbit LauncherOne launch
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/01/virgin-orbit-launcherone-launch.html
Related link:
Virgin Orbit: https://virginorbit.com/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: Virgin Orbit/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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