Rocket successfully launched from Boeing 747, but unspecified system fault prevents it from reaching orbit
Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart at Cornwall Airport Newquay, in Cornwall, Britain, on January 9 2023. Picture: REUTERS/HENRY NICHOLLS
“Space is difficult,” he told Sky News. “The great thing about this technology is that no-one was harmed, the pilots came back in the aircraft. It didn’t work. No doubt they’ll pick themselves up, dust themselves off and they’ll go again.” It is the latest in a series of setbacks for European-based space missions. An Italian-built Vega-C rocket mission failed after lift-off from French Guiana in late December and the rockets have since been grounded, while the European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 launcher for big satellites has been delayed.
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