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On June 29th, small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit scrubbed its "Straight Up" mission for the Space Force due to its LauncherOne rocket propellant temperature being "out of bounds."

The company's LaunchOne is supposed to be its fifth launch, but the first one to be done at nighttime.

Long Beach-based space launch systems developer Virgin Orbit says it is targeting a launch on June 29th from Mojave Air and Space Port, to send a payload into space for the US Department of Defense. Ac

Highlights: Dress rehearsals complete, payload-rocket mating successful June 29 marks the opening of the launch window for the company's fourth overall mission Is lead-in to historic

Can any technologies Musk developed from SpaceX, Starlink, and Tesla be used for military purposes?

The USSF-12 Mission set to launch later this month will conduct a variety of experiments and validate the ability to host multiple missions on one structure.

Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) announces today that a joint mission between the United Kingdom's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory and the United States Naval Research Laboratory

The two shoebox-sized CubeSats will each carry five miniature sensors, two provided by the Naval Research Lab and three by the UK Defence Science and Technology Lab.

Virgin Orbit is preparing for its next launch set for late June to support the U.S. Space Force’s STP-28A mission, the company announced Monday.  The

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