For Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission, the “Cosmic Girl” aircraft took off for the first time from Spaceport Cornwall, United Kingdom, on 9 January 2023, at 22:02 UTC. “Cosmic Girl” traveled off the coast of Ireland to about 9.6 km (31500ft) in altitude, then released the LauncherOne rocket that launched seven payloads: Prometheus-2 (two cubesats), AMAN (Oman’s first satellite), CIRCE (Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment), DOVER, ForgeStar-0, IOD-3 AMBER (aka IOD-3) and STORK-6; at 23:09 UTC.
Credit: Virgin Orbit

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