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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 UK's 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 Orbit's space plane, 'Cosmic Girl', next month. It arrived in Newquay on Friday night.
As early as next month, Sir Richard Branson's Cosmic Girl will take off from Newquay with a 70-foot-long rocket packed full of satellites.
Virgin Orbit's 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.