RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116555472841414967

🇮🇹 Air-launched systems have had a complicated history. #Pegasus and #VirginOrbit’s #LauncherOne neither achieved commercial sustainability. Pegasus suffered a sharp decline in its launch cadence as customers migrated to lower-cost rideshare alternatives, and Virgin Orbit entered bankruptcy in 2023 after only six flights.

#LaunchCost #Italy

What's the minimum requirement to call #launch 🚀 infrastructure a "#spaceport" ? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dspaceport

#CornRanch #BlueOrigin #NewShepard #SpaceportCornwall #VirginOrbit

SEC Sues Over Alleged Fraudulent $200M Rescue of Virgin Orbit
- By Sabrina Willmer

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/-bogus-offer-for-virgin-orbit-by-man-with-1-triggers-sec-suit
More: https://hype.aero/story/sec-sues-over-alleged-fraudulent-200m-rescue-of-virgin-orbit-159857/
#virginorbit #virgin #space

From the Ars Technica Rocket Report:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/rocket-report-delta-ivs-grand-finale-angara-flies-another-dummy-payload/

"Virgin Orbit IP for sale on LinkedIn. In a post this week on the social networking site LinkedIn, former Virgin Orbit chief executive Dan Hart said that the Virgin Orbit IP library is being made available for licensing."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-hart-0809b420_announcing-the-virgin-orbit-ip-library-now-activity-7183517602126684161-wgtp/

#VirginOrbit #space #rockets #LauncherOne #technology

Report: UK Pathfinder Launch From Spaceport Cornwall – Lessons Learned Report (UK Space Agency 2023)

#Boeing #Government #Infrastructure #Insurance #Launch #NationalSpaceStrategy #RiskManagement #Satellites #SpaceIndustry #SpaceSector #SpaceStrategy #Spaceflight #Strategy #UK #UKSpaceAgency #VirginOrbit #EditorSPicks #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #LaunchSegment #PolicyLawAndRegulation #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy #Upstream

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/01/25/report-uk-pathfinder-launch-from-spaceport-cornwall-lessons-learned-report-uk-space-agency-2023/

Once again, #rocketlab is capturing customers from other small launchers.

Today Rocket Lab announced they inked a deal with Japanese Earth Imaging company iQPS to launch their satellite into orbit!

Originally, the satellite was supposed to launch on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230817106425/en/Rocket-Lab-Inks-Dedicated-Launch-Deal-with-Japanese-Earth-Imaging-Company-iQPS

#space #gospace #nz #virginorbit #vo #rklb

Virgin Orbit is gone
Remnants bought by Firefly
A new space journey starts

#virginorbit #firefly #spacejourney #haiku #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/firefly-aerospace-buys-the-final-scraps-of-doomed-virgin-orbit-193049970.html