Virgin Orbit's debut LauncherOne demonstration flight was air-dropped from the Cosmic Girl 747 over the Pacific, but a broken high-pressure propellant feed line cut off the first-stage engine moments after ignition, ending the flight before it reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 LauncherOne flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 2020, 19:50 UTC
- Rocket
- LauncherOne
- Builder
- Virgin Orbit
- Launch site
- Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2020
- 35th of 114