Virgin Orbit's air-launched LauncherOne flew the 'Start Me Up' mission, the first orbital launch attempt from UK soil, released from a modified 747 off Spaceport Cornwall. A second-stage anomaly left it short of orbit and all nine satellites were lost.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 LauncherOne flights
- Date and time
- 9 January 2023, 23:08 UTC
- Rocket
- LauncherOne
- Builder
- Virgin Orbit
- Launch site
- Spaceport Cornwall, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2023
- 4th of 223