Virgin Orbit LauncherOne Above the Clouds
LauncherOne
Status
Success
Date
13 JAN 2022
22:52
Mission Overview
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.
Rocket
LauncherOne
Mission Type
Communications
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
Stages
2
Livestream
Rocket Details
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
Launch Mass
30 T
Thrust
327 kN
