UKs first space mission ends in failure as 'anomaly' stops rocket from reaching orbit
dailyrecord.co.ukBritain's first-ever orbital space mission has failed to reach orbit due to an "anomaly", just hours after budding crowds celebrated its historic launch.
Thousands had congregated at Newquay Airport on the evening of Monday, December 9 to get behind the Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 dubbed 'Cosmic Girl' as it took off into the night sky.
The rocket successfully detached from the plane at 11:10pm above the Irish sea and began its journey into space, with everything appearing to be going swimmingly, reports the Mirror.
The rocket, known as LauncherOne, had successfully made orbit, according to an announcement by Virgin Orbit, but a short time later this statement was retracted.In a tweet which bowled over the fans gathered at the runway, Virgin Orbit said: "As we find out more, we're removing our previous tweet about reaching orbit.
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