Virgin Orbit

Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's satellite launch firm, has filed for bankruptcy. The company is also looking for a buyer, and recently announced that it was laying off 85 percent of its workforce after it failed to secure enough funding.

Virgin Orbit, which listed its shares on New York's Nasdaq index in 2021, had debts of $153.5 million in last year.

An attempt to launch the first rocket into orbit from UK soil ended in failure on Tuesday, with scientists reporting an "anomaly" as it neared its goal.

A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven US Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night.

A Virgin Orbit rocket released from a jet flying off the California coast carried seven small satellites into space as the company kicked off a year in which it plans to ramp up the pace of launches, including two originating from Britain.

Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments, is forking over an unspecified but presumably exorbitant sum to fellow billionaire and SpaceX owner Elon Musk to fly himself and three others into orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time with a successful test of its air-launched rocket on Sunday, hitting a key milestone after aborting the rocket’s first test launch last year. The rocket delivered ten NASA satellites to orbit.

Virgin Orbit engineers were analyzing data Tuesday to find out what caused the maiden flight of its air-launched satellite booster to fail. The problem occurred soon after the LauncherOne rocket was released Monday from a Boeing 747 jetliner off the Southern California coast and its first stage motor ignited.

Branson's Virgin Orbit released a rocket from the wing of a modified Boeing 747 jetliner in mid-air in a key test of its high-altitude launch system for satellites, the company said.

Fiery failures are no stranger to the space game. It's what happens when you push the boundaries of what technology can do, where people can go. And it happened again to Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

Richard Branson is set to meet his Virgin Galactic space team in California's Mojave Desert on Saturday following the crash of a passenger spaceship being developed by his company that killed one pilot and seriously injured the other.

Privately-held Planetary Resources, backed by Page, Schmidt, Branson, and others, had a test satellite onboard Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket that exploded at launch on Tuesday.

Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's satellite launch firm, has filed for bankruptcy. The company is also looking for a buyer, and recently announced that it was laying off 85 percent of its workforce after it failed to secure enough funding.

Virgin Orbit, which listed its shares on New York's Nasdaq index in 2021, had debts of $153.5 million in last year.

An attempt to launch the first rocket into orbit from UK soil ended in failure on Tuesday, with scientists reporting an "anomaly" as it neared its goal.

A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven US Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night.

A Virgin Orbit rocket released from a jet flying off the California coast carried seven small satellites into space as the company kicked off a year in which it plans to ramp up the pace of launches, including two originating from Britain.

Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments, is forking over an unspecified but presumably exorbitant sum to fellow billionaire and SpaceX owner Elon Musk to fly himself and three others into orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time with a successful test of its air-launched rocket on Sunday, hitting a key milestone after aborting the rocket’s first test launch last year. The rocket delivered ten NASA satellites to orbit.

Virgin Orbit engineers were analyzing data Tuesday to find out what caused the maiden flight of its air-launched satellite booster to fail. The problem occurred soon after the LauncherOne rocket was released Monday from a Boeing 747 jetliner off the Southern California coast and its first stage motor ignited.

Branson's Virgin Orbit released a rocket from the wing of a modified Boeing 747 jetliner in mid-air in a key test of its high-altitude launch system for satellites, the company said.

Fiery failures are no stranger to the space game. It's what happens when you push the boundaries of what technology can do, where people can go. And it happened again to Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

Richard Branson is set to meet his Virgin Galactic space team in California's Mojave Desert on Saturday following the crash of a passenger spaceship being developed by his company that killed one pilot and seriously injured the other.

Privately-held Planetary Resources, backed by Page, Schmidt, Branson, and others, had a test satellite onboard Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket that exploded at launch on Tuesday.