Virgin Orbit launches its first commercial satellites into space
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A 70-foot rocket blasted off from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 over the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, marking the second successful orbital flight for rocket startup Virgin Orbit.
The plane, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, took off from California Wednesday just before 7 am PT, and about an hour later, the pilot hit a large red button to cue the rocket's release from beneath the aircraft's left wing. The rocket then fired up its engine and swooped toward outer space as it revved up to more than 17,000 miles per hour. The rocket' second stage then completed what Virgin Orbit calls a "BBQ roll," in which it briefly spins to keep it evenly exposed to heat before deploying the group of small satellites housed in the rocket's nose cone into orbit. The company's first successful orbital flight came in January, and Wednesday's mission marked the first that was considered a fully operational — rather than a test — mission.
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