Countdown to UK's first space launch with Virgin Orbit plane to arrive within weeks

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl plane will take off from Newquay with a 70-foot-long rocket packed full of satellites, which will then be flown to high altitude, dropped, and ignited before flying into space.

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