The attempt was originally scheduled for Sunday, May 24, but operations were scrubbed due to a sensor issue.

The aircraft was delivered to Virgin Orbit in 2015. After years of development and testing, Virgin Orbit has conducted its first orbital launch attempt. Virgin Orbit, headquartered in Long Beach, is a sister company of Virgin Galactic, the company Sir Richard Branson founded to carry passengers on suborbital flights into the lower reaches of space. The first and second stages then separate, and the second stage engine ignites. To develop and produce them, Virgin Global—with the University of California Irvine and the University of Texas at Austin—formed the Bridge Ventilator Consortium. A LauncherOne test article is dropped from Cosmic Girl during a drop test in July 2019 – via Virgin Orbit. The Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft is a Boeing 747-400 that was previously operated as a passenger airliner for Virgin Atlantic. After approximately three minutes of powered flight, fuel levels deplete, and the first stage shuts down. The mission to defy those odds began at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where both Virgin Orbit and former sister company, Virgin Galactic, have based their flight test operations. The LauncherOne system can deliver up to 500 kilograms of payload to an equatorial, 230 kilometer altitude Low Earth Orbit, and up to 300 kilograms to a 500 kilometer Sun Synchronous Orbit. There was no immediate word on what went wrong. The LauncherOne rocket, intended to serve the small satellite launch market, was air-launched from the Cosmic Girl carrier aircraft while flying over the Pacific Ocean, in a window from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PDT (17:00 to 21:00 UTC).

The rocket was supposed to fall for a few seconds before the 1st of its 2 stages ignited and hurtled it down the coast toward the South Pole for insertion of its demonstration payload into a low Earth orbit. Cosmic Girl has landed back in Mojave and our crew are all safe and sound. Onboard LauncherOne for the demonstration mission was only a mass simulator. One notable future LauncherOne mission is the ELaNa-20 mission for NASA, which will deliver 10 CubeSats to Low Earth Orbit. Help us keep hyperlocal news alive in Long Beach. Cosmic girl took off, but LauncherOne didn't make it to orbit.

The four-hour window will open each day at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT). The countdown was then recycled for Monday’s launch opportunity. If all of the previous phases of flight had proceeded nominally, then LauncherOne’s ascent would have concluded with the second stage shutting down in Low Earth Orbit. This would have taken LauncherOne southeast from the drop zone, which is southwest of San Nicolas Island, off the coast of southern California. Other customers for future LauncherOne missions include the OneWeb satellite internet constellation and the United States military.

There’s a four-hour window during which the launch can take place, starting from 10:00 PT. The rocket was fueled completely, and all other components of the countdown were proceeding smoothly prior to the scrub.

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