A 'marine hazard area' has been declared in an area of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Irish counties Kerry and Cork during the VirginOrbit rocket launch
Seafarers are told to avoid a "hazard area" during a UK rocket launch.It was sent in advance of the Virgin Orbit launch over the Atlantic.The Irish government has warned all boats to avoid an area off the Irish coast during the Virgin Orbit space launch.
It is the first ever orbital space launch from British soil and if it is successful it will mark a major milestone for the UK space industry. If the rocket is successfully launched, nine shoe-box sized satellites will then be released into an orbit more than 500km above Earth. The jet will take about an hour to travel from Newquay Airport in Cornwall to the launch zone, according to the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos. The rocket will then head in a southerly direction as it gains altitude."It'll climb high into the sky and it will zoom around the Earth, past Antarctica, come up the other side and it will drop off those nine satellites high above the planet.
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