Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Virgin Orbit
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:52:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6185 ever
Mission
Mission to a 500 km circular orbit inclined at 45 degrees carrying eight R&D satellites from US government agencies with communications and navigation experiments as well as two Earth-observation nanosatellites from Polish company SatRevolution.