Virgin Galactic med B747 som ''LauncherOne''

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Tidligere B747 ''Cosmic Girl'' - G-VWOW hos Virgin Atlantic er nå blitt N744VG hos Virgin Galactic
https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/747/32745/N744VG-Virgin-Galactic

Boeing 747 -41R 32745 1287 N744VG Virgin Galactic ferried 16mar16 SAT-CNW ex G-VWOW
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Providing Affordable, Reliable And Flexible Launch For A New Generation Of Satellites
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Governments, companies, and even individuals all around the world are now building incredibly innovative small satellites. Once a team of satellite innovators has invested their time and money perfecting their satellite technology, they don’t want to sit around waiting for a launch date that could be years in the future. The world’s leading satellite inventors deserve a launch vehicle that works the way their satellites work. That’s why LauncherOne is built to support quick, responsive, and affordable cubesat and microsatellite missions.

LauncherOne has been designed from the start to be affordable, reliable, flexible, and responsive. We accomplish those ambitious goals through the way we design the system, the way we build it, and way we operate it. One critically important aspect of our method is the way we launch our system.

Rather than launching from a traditional launch pad at a spaceport, LauncherOne is launched from our dedicated 747-400 carrier aircraft, called Cosmic Girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWeNops932Q&feature=youtu.be
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http://www.virgingalactic.com/satellite-launch/l1-operations/
 
Første gang klarte jeg å lese 80k fot, men er jo 80k kilometer, eller rundt 270k fot!
 
konkurssalget har blitt forsinket.
kan ikke helt seg for meg at noen har lyst drive det videre.

Virgin Orbit said May 9 that it had received more than 30 “indications of interest” in the company. It did not identify any of them, but noted that “multiple” parties were interested in buying the entire company, keeping it operating and retaining current employees “in an integrated enterprise.”
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https://spacenews.com/virgin-orbit-...IFp39sWOaVBN8GCkrQ34iYUxchzhUVUY2akyb77SUuoI4

teknisk mer krevende å skyte opp fra fly enn konvensjonell rakett (hvor spacex /rocket labs +andre har konkurranse. (der spacex har 5 raketter til i mai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtMYsepkec
 
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Da var selskapet solgt i deler: Flyet til Stratolaunch, hovedkontoret til Rocket Lab og noe greier i ørkenen til Vast Space

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...ates-assets-in-bankruptcy-auction/ar-AA1bBtjP

Virgin Orbit sold its 144,000 square-foot Long Beach, Calif., manufacturing facility and company headquarters to Rocket Lab for $16.1 million. Rocket Lab will also receive the company's 3-D printers and a specialty tank welding machine.
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The California-based company sold its Mojave-based facilities to Launcher, a subsidiary of Vast Space, for $2.7 million. And its modified Boeing 747 jet, Cosmic Girl, went to Stratolaunch for $17 million.
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