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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit to go public in SPAC merger valuing the satellite launch company at $3.2 billion
Virgin Orbit in January took 10 small satellites to Earth's orbit for NASA in its first successful …
Carla Mozée
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What went wrong at Virgin Orbit? 4 red flags signaled trouble for Richard Branson's satellite launch firm.
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy protection after laying off staff, not securing…
Kate Duffy
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit gets green light for first orbital space launch from UK — and will use a repurposed Boeing 747 for the mission
Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747 aircraft, named Cosmic Girl, will fly 35,000 feet and release a rocket fr…
Kate Duffy
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Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's satellite company, is laying off 85% of staff and reportedly ceasing operations 'for the foreseeable future'
Virgin Orbit, which spun off from Branson's space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, is reportedly c…
Samantha Delouya
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is set to launch the first orbital rocket from UK soil on Monday. Watch live as the rocket drops from a Boeing 747.
Virgin Orbit crew will proceed cautiously around the launch in case winds or lightning set in, its …
Kate Duffy
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Virgin Orbit stock crashes as Richard Branson's satellite company ceases operations 'for the foreseeable future'
Virgin Orbit hasn't secured funding needed "to provide a clear path for this company," CEO Dan Hart…
Carla Mozée
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Watch a Virgin Orbit rocket successfully launch from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747, marking the latest entrant to the commercial space race
Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket launched from a modified Boeing 747, known as Cosmic Girl, carryi…
Grace Dean
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit says its rocket suffered an 'anomaly,' stopping it from taking 9 satellites to orbit
Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Boeing 747, took off and released Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne, but the roc…
Kate Duffy
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit rocket firm files for bankruptcy
It failed to secure funding to continue operations.
Huileng Tan
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Sir Richard Branson just strapped a giant rocket to a 747 jet airplane with his space company Virgin Orbit
"Air launch frees missions from traffic jams at the existing launch sites; eliminates the need for …
Dave Mosher
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Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of workforce
Virgin Orbit, the rocket company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, has laid off nearl…
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The world's largest plane that finally flew was Microsoft co-founder late Paul Allen's idea
This entire system has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of launching satellites in…
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A Boeing 747 that flew for Virgin Orbit before its collapse has a new home with Stratolaunch
Named the Spirit of Mojave, Stratolaunch bought the 22-year-old Boeing 747 from Richard Branson's V…
Taylor Rains
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Billionaire Richard Branson calls the Boeing 747 a 'wonderful beast' after the last jumbo jet is delivered but says it was 'too expensive'
Richard Branson bid farewell to the Boeing 747, but said the daily fuel costs across the Atlantic b…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX and Rocket Lab are the only consistent and reliable launch companies as other space stocks have trouble raising capital, Bank of America says
"Despite the difficult financing environment, there is more opportunity than ever in space," Bank o…
Filip De Mott
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EXPERT: The future of Virgin Galactic is not in space tourism
Still, it's unlikely the space tourism element of the company will disappear. Virgin Galactic just …
Kelly Dickerson
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Virgin Orbit successfully dropped a rocket from a jumbo jet and ignited it, but its launch failed due to an 'anomaly'
Virgin Orbit's first rocket launch failed due to an unexplained problem after it had a "clean relea…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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For the next 9 months, the brightest object in the night sky will be a tiny, disco-ball-like satellite
The sparkly new addition to the night sky will also draw attention to Rocket Lab, a company that's …
Erin Brodwin
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Richard Branson is reportedly working on his first European SPAC after launching 2 companies through blank-check firms in the US
Sky News said Branson's business is working with bankers on the European SPAC, which could be annou…
Carla Mozée
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Rocket Lab agrees to go public via SPAC merger with Vector Acquisition, valuing the space-transport startup at $4.1 billion
The deal is expected to close in the second quarter. Vector will change its name to Rocket Lab and …