Tubular Bells: In T-2 days , Virgin Orbit 's Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne take flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport in California !

Virgin Orbit publishes a quick update on the next mission that , only T-2 days remaining untill Cosmic Girl and LauncherOne take flight for Tubular Bells.

Statement reads as ,

Currently, we remain on track for our target takeoff time between 6 AM and 8 AM Pacific on Weds, June 30.Hardware is all in excellent shape and we’re ready to step through our pre-launch procedures.

Venue 

Virgin Orbit's carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl will take off from Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, and will travel approximately 1 hour out to sea before releasing the rocket just off the Pacific coast.

MISSION MANIFEST

A total of 7 satellites will fly on LauncherOne for Tubular Bells: Part One. The full list of customers onboard this mission includes:

• The U.S. Department of Defense, which is launching three CubeSat sets as part of the DoD Space Test Program’s (STP) Rapid Agile Launch (RALI) Initiative. This launch, also known as STP-27VPA, was awarded to Virgin Orbit subsidiary VOX Space by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an organization working to accelerate the adoption of commercial technology into the U.S. military to strengthen national security.  
• The Royal Netherlands Air Force, which is launching the Netherlands’ first military satellite, a CubeSat called BRIK II, built and integrated by Innovative Solutions in Space.
• SatRevolution, which is launching the first two optical satellites, STORK-4 and STORK-5 (A.K.A. MARTA), of the company’s 14-satellite STORK constellation.

HOW TO WATCH ?

For live updates as the flight progresses, please tune into our public livestream, which will be available on our YouTube. Alternatively, you can follow along with our live-tweets on Twitter (@VirginOrbit).

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