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We're heading into a quiet week for rocket launches but some long-delayed missions could finally get the break they need and get into orbit. One of the missions will see Virgin Orbit do an air launch. ....
Virgin Orbit announced it will launch its next LauncherOne mission carrying payloads for the US Department of Defense, the Royal Netherlands Air Force, and SatRevolution in June. The launch will take place at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California and will be the first since Virgin Orbit’s successful Launch Demo 2 mission in January. The LauncherOne vehicle will take its payloads to a destination circular orbit at 500 km, 60 degrees inclination. Virgin has named the mission “Tubular Bells, Part One” after the first track on the first album ever released by Virgin Records. The U.S. Department of Defense is launching three cubesat sets on “Tubular Bells, Part One” as part of its Space Test Program’s (STP) Rapid Agile Launch (RALI) Initiative. The Royal Netherlands Air Force is sending the Netherlands’ first military satellite, a cubesat called BRIK II, to space. SatRevolution is launching the first two optical satellites, STORK-4 and STORK ....