Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne, dropped from carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl off the California coast, deployed 11 satellites on the 'Above the Clouds' mission, including Space Force STP-27VPB payloads Ignis and PAN A/B plus commercial smallsats for SatRevolution and Spire Global.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 44 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 LauncherOne flights
- Date and time
- 13 January 2022, 22:52 UTC
- Rocket
- LauncherOne
- Builder
- Virgin Orbit
- Launch site
- Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2022-003
- Launches in 2022
- 3rd of 186
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Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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