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History was made in the UK tonight as the first-ever orbital space launch took off from Cornwall. A plane had been modified to release a Virgin Orbit rocket carrying nine small satellites into space.
Virgin Orbit’s Start Me Up mission heralded as start of new space era as Boeing 747 to deliver rocket carrying satellites into orbit
Virgin Orbit's space plane took off from Newquay Airport at 22:02 GMT and is currently on its way out to the Atlantic, where it with drop a rocket that will then blast into orbit with a payload of nine satellites.
Virgin Orbit's repurposed 747 jumbo jet took off from Cornwall shortly after 22:00 GMT and about an hour later dropped a 70-ft long rocket from its belly which then blasted into space.