2022 · Virgin Orbit

Above the Clouds

successLauncherOne | Above the Clouds

Mission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigation experiments as well as two Earth-observation nanosatellites from Polish company SatRevolution.

Overview

Date / time: January 13, 2022 at 10:52 PM UTC
Outcome: success
Launch site: Mojave Air and Space Port
Mission: Above the Clouds
Mission type: Communications
Orbit achieved: Low Earth Orbit

Payloads deployed · 7