The U.K. is brimming with excitement ahead of historic Virgin Orbit launch from Spaceport Cornwall.
"We'll do a three minute burn on the first stage, followed by about six minutes of second-stage burn," Dan Hart, Virgin Orbit CEO said during a pre-launch news conference on Sunday ."We'll coast around Antarctica, come up around near Australia. And then we'll watch the final burn and the payloads deploy."
The night-time launch slot, which may be disappointing for viewers, was selected because of the orbital requirements of the clients' satellites, Hart added. last week. Virgin Orbit's team was ready to proceed with fuelling later on Sunday, according to Hart. For Spaceport Cornwall, which received its spaceport license from the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority in November, the Start Me Up mission is what the region, as well as an entire country, hope to be a beginning of a long and fruitful cooperation.
"The space industry is worth around £6.5 billion [$7.7 billion] annually for the U.K. economy," Ian Annett, deputy CEO of the U.K. Space Agency, which co-funded the development of Spaceport Cornwall, said during the news conference. "As a country, we are absolutely fantastic at designing and building satellites: We build more satellites than anywhere else outside of the U.S.," he said."So it helps to develop an end-to-end capability so that we can do everything."Spaceport Cornwall is one of seven locations across the U.K. that was awarded funding by the U.K.
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