The failure of the first ever orbital space launch from British soil was caused by a premature shutdown in the rocket, operator Virgin Orbit has revealed.
Virgin Orbit tweeted optimistically that its team are committed to correcting [their] systems and eager to launch again after the failure of the Start Me Up mission on Monday night.
The footage was filmed from Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, and matches both the launch trajectory and timing of Virgin Orbit s rocket, experts say.
Sir Richard Branson s cash-strapped company is now fighting for its survival as it hurriedly probes what went wrong and why the first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil ended in failure.