(charge: European Space Agency)
Welcome to Edition 3.19 of this Rocket Report! This week we’re happy to visit US rockets, directed to the Antares and Falcon 9 vehicles, so get back on course following a set of scrubs because of weather and technical problems. The world’s next launch is really a large one: a Soyuz carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station following week.
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Virgin Orbit’s rocket comes in a high cost . As Virgin Orbit pushes toward its next launch attempt late at 2020, its own expenditures are still adding up. Launched in 2011 from Sir Richard Branson as a offshoot of the Virgin Galactic area company, Virgin Orbit hasn’t shown just how much it has invested up to now. But industry officials estimate it’s spanned between $500 million to 700 million growing LauncherOne along with also the infrastructure to support it.
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