The planned satellite launch in Great Britain unexpectedly encountered problems on Tuesday night. “It appears that an anomaly prevented us from reaching orbit,” tweeted the US company involved, Virgin Orbit, owned by British billionaire Richard Branson. You evaluate the information. An employee of the British space agency later described the mission as “unsuccessful”. The rocket didn’t reach the required altitude and the satellites couldn’t send out, said Matt Archer of the UK Space Agency. There will be an investigation in the coming days to find out how the technical failure could have happened. A jumbo jet had previously flown from British soil as a flying launch pad for space satellites for the first time. The machine took off from Newquay Airport as planned on Monday evening. At a height of 10.7 kilometers above the Atlantic Ocean, the converted Boeing 747 aircraft would then send a launch vehicle into space, which in turn would put nine small satellites into orbit. Apparently there were problems.
Virgin Orbit – satellite launch in England failed – economy
