A company founded by entrepreneur Richard Branson to launch small satellites botched an initial demo flight, saying the main engine roared to life, but 'an anomaly then occurred early' in the booster's trajectory
Virgin Orbit’s long-anticipated debut mission kicked off Monday over Southern California in perfect weather when a converted Boeing Co.
747 jet, named “Cosmic Girl,” climbed to 35,000 feet, a slender, 70-foot rocket slung under its left wing. Everything proceeded as planned with the red-nosed booster dropping away from...
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Branson’s Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attemptRichard Branson’s Virgin Orbit failed Monday on its first attempt to launch a test satellite into space aboard a rocket carried aloft by a Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California.
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Before and after: See destruction of Michigan flooding in satellite imagesThe Landsat 8, an American observation satellite, depicts the two mid-Michigan dams — Edenville and Sanford — that failed and the Tittabawassee River.
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Latvia to launch Google-Apple friendly coronavirus contact tracing appLatvia aims to become one of the first countries to launch a smartphone app using a new toolkit created by U.S. tech giants Apple and Alphabet's Google to help trace coronavirus infections.
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SpaceX ready to launch astronauts into space for the first timeUS President Donald Trump will be among the spectators at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to witness the launch, which has been given the green light despite months of shutdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic. The general public, in a nod to virus restrictions, has been told to watch via a livestream
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