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.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 327 kN
- Height
- 16 m
- Diameter
- 1.6 m
- Launch mass
- 30 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- $12M
- LEO capacity
- 500 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 300 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
6
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
66.7%
4 of 6
Current success streak
0
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- LauncherOne | Start Me Up — Failure
- LauncherOne | Straight Up — Success
- LauncherOne | Above the Clouds — Success
- LauncherOne | Tubular Bells, Part One — Success
- LauncherOne | Launch Demo 2 — Success