Virgin Orbit - Cosmic Girl & LauncherOne (Space Edit) | Go To Space

Virgin Orbit will provide launch services for small satellites. The company will be using the newly developed LauncherOne rocket, launched from Cosmic Girl - a Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The LauncherOne rocket will be dropped from Cosmic Girl at a height of 35,000 ft (11,000 m). LauncherOne has a payload capacity of 300 kilograms when executing missions to a sun-synchronous orbit and 500 kilograms when going to equatorial orbits. However, LEO missions will be the initial focus for LauncherOne. The first launc