Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit will launch its next satellite from Cornwall following a successful mission in California, the Government has announced.
The company, which is part of the Virgin Group, completed its fourth commercial launch - and its first at night - in Mojave, in the US, on Saturday (July 2).
Unlike many rockets, Virgin Orbit’s Launcher One takes off horizontally, carried aloft by a modified Boeing 747 aircraft named Cosmic Girl.
