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Virgin Orbit: Fly me to the moon with the Cosmic Girl – LauncherOne

By Ashley Anthony

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 27 - In this handout image distributed by Virgin Galactic, an artists impression is seen of a Virgin Galactic passenger spacecraft, released September 27, 2004, in London. Virgin Galactic hopes to be able to offer sub-orbital space tourist flights by 2007 with expected pricing to start at 115,000GBP per seat. (Photo by Virgin Galactic via Getty Images)
LONDON - SEPTEMBER 27 - In this handout image distributed by Virgin Galactic, an artists impression is seen of a Virgin Galactic passenger spacecraft, released September 27, 2004, in London. Virgin Galactic hopes to be able to offer sub-orbital space tourist flights by 2007 with expected pricing to start at 115,000GBP per seat. (Photo by Virgin Galactic via Getty Images) /
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Virgin Orbit for the win! The Cosmic Girl could be the woman to finally take man back to the moon again. The new age of launching satellites into lower earth orbit is almost here.

The Cosmic Girl. The title of the new Virgin Orbit aircraft taking their flight programme to new heights or higher heights, whichever comes first. Virgin Orbit is looking for more efficient and money-saving alternatives to launch their rockets into space. And they seem to be extremely close.

A customized Boeing 747 was built to by the worldwide brand Virgin which we already know is the Cosmic Girl. The Cosmic Girl must find a good relationship with the LauncherOne, which is a two-stage orbital launch vehicle. In a nutshell a rocket with a satellite.

LauncherOne meets Cosmic Girl

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"LauncherOne is a two stage orbital launch vehicle under development by Virgin Orbit since 2007. It is an air launch to orbit rocket, designed to launch “smallsat” payloads of 300 kilograms (660 lb) into Sun-synchronous orbit, [3] following air launch from a carrier aircraft at high altitude. Launches are projected to begin in 2019. [4]"

The rocket is meant to carry the satellites and launch them into lower earth orbit around the globe, capable of synchronizing with each other for ultimate world domination (what else could it be for?). The Virgins are excited about the step forward they have taken as it puts them ahead of the rest of the world for the first time in a long time.

The British have led for the most part in satellite technology. But funny enough, if they want to go even higher and get even better they have to team up. Which seems to be the word on the streets.

The Cosmic Girl Drop Test by Virgin Orbit

At the beginning of July, Virgin carried out their first drop test with the customised 747 jet setter in their LauncherOne quest. The test went off perfectly after the rocket descended and hit the ground in Southern California. Sounds wrong but Virgin claims its only right.

"This morning, Virgin Orbit — the spinoff company of Richard Branson’s space tourism venture Virgin Galactic — dropped a small test rocket from an airplane over Southern California where it slammed into the ground.The rocket’s plunge to the earth was part of a major flight test for Virgin Orbit that will pave the way for the company’s first launch to space later this summer. (via: TheVerge.com)"

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After the test was conducted and everything went down successfully the American company announced they already moving along swiftly with the production of several other rockets.

Travelling to space one day doesn’t sound too far away, does it now.

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