Virgin Orbit stock subsequently dropped 14%. Now, the good news for shareholders is that despite an ongoing investigation having failed to explain the anomaly, investors appear to have forgotten their ...
This week has seen good news for one NASA moon mission, as the CAPSTONE satellite recovered from a communications issue, but bad news for another. The Lunar Flashlight mission, which is intended to ...
Earth's orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse. At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour.
Some problems grow quietly, almost politely, until they stop being ignorable. Space junk is one of those. It does not ...
A routine launch of SpaceX satellites ran into problems Thursday night when they were deployed at a lower-than-intended orbit because of an issue with the second-stage engine on the Falcon 9 rocket ...
Virgin Orbit, which has invested in Arqit, has been lined up to launch its satellites in 2023. Credit: Virgin Orbit WASHINGTON — The first flight of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket failed to reach ...
Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...
A series of convertible notes sold by Virgin Orbit to raise working capital are secured by the company’s assets, including its Boeing 747 aircraft used as a launch platform. Credit: Virgin Orbit ...