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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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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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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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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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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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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 rocket firm files for bankruptcy
It failed to secure funding to continue operations.
Huileng Tan
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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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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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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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Alabama rocket startup Aevum just unveiled the world's biggest drone - a 28-ton autonomous behemoth that may soon rocket US military satellites into orbit
Once a satellite reaches Aevum's spaceport, company founder Jay Skylus says a mostly autonomous sys…
Dave Mosher
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China lands its secretive space plane after 9 months in orbit
The mysterious "experimental" space plane could be a round-trip vehicle for "peaceful" use of outer…
Natalie Musumeci,Morgan McFal…
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has spent $1 billion trying to reach to space — while a small New Zealand startup got to orbit for a fraction of that
CEO Peter Beck says Rocket Lab has spent about $180 million to develop the Electron launch vehicle,…
Dave Mosher
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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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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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Jeff Bezos just launched to the edge of space. Here's how Blue Origin's plans stack up to SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.
Bezos envisions a moon base, while Musk dreams of a Mars colony. Branson's Virgin Galactic may make…
Tim Levin
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Virgin Galactic aims to fly its first human mission from Spaceport America in November, and NASA's sending some science experiments along for the ride
A successful test flight is crucial if the company wants to start serving its well-heeled customers…
Susie Neilson,Dave Mosher
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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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SpaceX just won $885 million in federal subsidies to expand Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite-internet project
The FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund announced the winners of first-phase bidding, and SpaceX e…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to launch the first of 11,925 internet satellites - more than all spacecraft that orbit Earth today
"We're really talking about something which is, in the long term, like rebuilding the internet in s…