Virgin Orbit's attempt to make history by launching the first set of satellites from British soil Monday night did not go as planned, resulting in the loss of all nine satellites on board. Cosmic Girl, a modified 747, taxied toward history as it took off at 5:02 p.m. EST from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, England, hoping to successfully christen a new spaceport. Once it reached 35,000 feet in the air, the aircraft deployed a rocket, called LauncherOne, which would then launch its paylods into space. Tucked inside LauncherOne's payload fairing were nine small satellites, representing seven different customers. The two-stage rocket is specially designed to horizontally launch small
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