Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne reached orbit for the first time, air-launched from the Cosmic Girl 747 over the Pacific and deploying 10 university CubeSats for NASA's ELaNa 20 program, succeeding on the company's second orbital attempt.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 30 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 LauncherOne flights
- Date and time
- 17 January 2021, 19:38 UTC
- Rocket
- LauncherOne
- Builder
- Virgin Orbit
- Launch site
- Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- International designator
- 2021-002
- Launches in 2021
- 2nd of 146
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