flown missionSuccess
LauncherOne | Straight Up
Virgin OrbitMojave Air and Space Port — Air launch to orbit
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Straight Up
- Type
- Government/Top Secret
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch contracted by the U.S. Space Force for the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP), with payloads provided by the DoD Space Test Program (STP) as part of the Space Force’s STP-28A mission. It will carry seven satellites from multiple government agencies that are experiments intended to demonstrate novel modular satellite bus, space domain awareness, and adaptive radio frequency technologies. The target orbit is approximately 500 km above the Earth’s surface at 45 degrees inclination.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- LauncherOne
- Variant
- One
- Provider
- Virgin Orbit
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Mojave Air and Space Port
- Location
- Air launch to orbit
- Country
- ???
- Coordinates
- 35.0594, -118.1517