Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit failed Monday in its first test launch of a new rocket carried aloft by a Boeing 747 and released over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-branson-virgin-orbit-rocket.html