LauncherOne | Above the Clouds
Virgin Orbit · LauncherOne · Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to orbit
Virgin Orbit's 4th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 6,185th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Jan 13, 22:20 – Jan 14, 00:50 UTC
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Above the Clouds
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.
Communications · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
No booster details available.
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Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 1/13/2022 · source
Updating the window
SwGustav · 1/13/2022 · source
Now targeting January 13.
Jay · 1/11/2022 · source
Updated launch time.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/29/2021 · source
NET January 12
Jay · 12/23/2021 · source
Launch now planned in January 2022.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/21/2021 · source
New launch date/time per marine space closure notices, to be officially confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/9/2021 · source
Mentioning of this launch in USCG local warning messages has been removed.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/30/2021 · source
Launch date and window updated per USCG marine space closure notices.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/11/2021 · source
New mission name “Above The Clouds” confirmed.
Cosmic_Penguin · 11/9/2021 · source
