{"id":30529,"date":"2024-04-24T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-galactic-launcherone-facts-list\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:00:12","slug":"unlikely-to-fly-again-5-fast-facts-about-virgin-galactics-novel-launcherone-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=30529","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely To Fly Again: 5 Fast Facts About Virgin Galactic&#8217;s Novel LauncherOne Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Space can be a lucrative market, and the demand for launching satellites (particularly small satellites) into space is a rapidly growing industry. Virgin Orbit hoped to tap into this market with its <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/launcherone\/\">LauncherOne<\/a> two-stage orbital launch vehicle. Just as <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-747\/\">Boeing 747s<\/a> were selected to carry the Space Shuttles (starting with the prototype, <em>Enterprise<\/em>), a modified 747 was used to carry <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-orbit\/\">Virgin Orbit&#39;s<\/a> LauncherOne. However, after failed launches and increased financial pressure, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-orbit-chapter-11-bankruptcy-analysis\/\">Virgin Orbit collapsed into bankruptcy<\/a> meaning that LauncherOne is not likely to fly again.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic&#8217;s LauncherOne was a failed attempt to enter the growing satellite launch market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,567,8272,8273,8271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-launcherone","category-rocket","category-virgin-orbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30530,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30529\/revisions\/30530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}