{"id":1066,"date":"2022-01-14T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/third-successful-mission-for-virgin-orbits-launcherone-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T20:31:07","slug":"third-successful-mission-for-virgin-orbits-launcherone-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/third-successful-mission-for-virgin-orbits-launcherone-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Third successful mission for Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virgin Orbit has managed a third successful mission<\/a> as the company deployed seven satellites into orbit from its LauncherOne rocket.<\/p>\n

Describing itself as “the responsive launch and space solutions company,” Virgin Orbit achieved two missions last year. Yesterday’s launch was just a few days shy of the company’s first successful mission on 17 January 2021. Its first effort, in 2020, ended in failure.<\/p>\n

This week’s launch included repeat business from the US Department of Defense and Polish company SatRevolution. The payload included experiments in space-based communications, debris detection, navigation, and propulsion. All in all, Virgin Orbit has managed to launch 26 satellites. Still, it’s a far cry from the 109 of fellow small-sat upstart Rocket Lab and just a quarter of the payloads launched by SpaceX on its Transporter-3 mission, also on 13 January.<\/p>\n

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