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Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure


Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure Virgin Orbit’s chief executive said Feb. 7 that a problem with a relatively inexpensive part may be linked to the failure of the company’s latest launch last month. Speaking on a panel at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View, California, Dan Hart said it was still premature to formally declare the root cause of the failed Jan. 9 flight of the company’s LauncherOne rocket on the “Start Me Up” mission from Spaceport Cornwall in England.    More



(Source: SpaceNews - Feb 8)

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