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Virgin Orbit has selected Monday, January 9 as a potential lift-off date from Spaceport Cornwall - more than 70 years after the British Space Programme was established in 1952.

Virgin Orbit has finally been awarded both the licences required to operate the UKs first space launch by the Civil Aviation Authority.

LauncherOne, the 70-foot-long launch vehicle, is due to be packed full of satellites and tucked into the belly of Virgin Orbits space plane, Cosmic Girl, next month. It arrived in Newquay on Friday night.

As early as next month, Sir Richard Bransons Cosmic Girl will take off from Newquay with a 70-foot-long rocket packed full of satellites.

Virgin Orbits Cosmic Girl plane will take off from Newquay with a 70-foot-long rocket packed full of satellites, which will then be flown to high altitude, dropped, and ignited before flying into space.

The Nuri rocket, built by the governments Korea Aerospace Research Institute ​together with hundreds of local companies, ​blasted off at 16:00 local time (08:00 BST) on Tuesday.

The new declaration "lays the foundation for rockets, high-altitude balloons and spaceplanes to lift off from spaceports across the UK very soon," the British government said in a statement.

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