Operator file · US-199
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Orbit is a commercial launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 2017. It has flown 6 launches under its own name. 4 succeeded and 2 failed, a success rate of 66.7%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.
Flight record
Launch statistics
These are launches under VO’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.
Operator or customer
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, VO is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight names VO with someone else flying it.
How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.
About VO
Virgin Orbit is a company within the Virgin Group which plans to provide launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 to develop the air-launched LauncherOne rocket, launched from Cosmic Girl, which had previously been a project of Virgin Galactic. Based in Long Beach, California, Virgin Orbit has more than 300 employees led by president Dan Hart, a former vice president of government satellite systems at Boeing. Virgin Orbit focuses on small satellite launch, which is one of three capabilities being focused on by Virgin Galactic. These capabilities are: human spaceflight operations, small satellite launch, and advanced aerospace design, manufacturing, and test
Upcoming launches
Manifest
VO has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesThe label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.
VO in the archive
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Common questions
- How many launches has Virgin Orbit flown?
- Virgin Orbit has flown 6 launches under its own name. 4 succeeded and 2 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is Virgin Orbit's success rate?
- 66.7%. That's 4 successful flights out of 6 attempts.
- When is Virgin Orbit's next launch?
- Virgin Orbit has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does Virgin Orbit fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- Virgin Orbit has flown 6 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
- Where is Virgin Orbit based?
- United States of America. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 2017.