Launch Vehicle
LauncherOne
retired
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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 16 m
- Diameter
- 1.6 m
- Mass
- 30,000 kg
- Stages
- 2
- Thrust
- 327 kN
- Payload to LEO
- 500 kg
- First flight
- 2020-05-25
- Total launches
- 6
- Success / Fail
- 4 / 2
LauncherOne is a two stage orbital launch vehicle developed by Virgin Orbit since 2007. It is an air launch to orbit rocket, designed to launch "smallsat" payloads of 300 kilograms (660 lb) into a Sun-synchronous orbit, following air launch from a carrier aircraft at high altitude.
Payloads it launched
32 loaded
GPX2 3U
LEO
MISR-B-1
LEO
RECURVE
LEO
GUNSMOKE-L
LEO
SLINGSHOT 1
LEO
NACHOS-2
LEO
CTIM
LEO
TECHEDSAT 13
LEO
STEAMSAT-2
LEO
OBJECT C
LEO
STORK-3
LEO
LEMUR-2-KRYWE
Lemur · LEO
GEARRS-3
LEO
OBJECT A
LEO
CNCE3
LEO
BRIK-II
LEO
CNCE1
LEO
STORK-4
LEO
HALO-NET FF
LEO
STORK-5 (MARTA)
LEO
GUNSMOKE-J 4
LEO
OBJECT J
LEO
RADFXSAT-2 (AO-109)
LEO
CP12 (EXOCUBE 2)
LEO
OBJECT K
LEO
PROMETHEUS 2-8
LEO
POLARCUBE
LEO
MITEE-1
LEO
OBJECT D
LEO
OBJECT G
LEO
CAPE-3
LEO
PROMETHEUS 2-11
LEO