Talk:Virgin Orbit

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Ds77 in topic Mubadala?

Callsign/airline codes

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Has Virgin Orbit been assigned an IATA/ICAO airline code yet? -- 70.51.200.162 (talk) 08:09, 28 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Newton Four full-duration hotfire test

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Virgin has released video of their 29 June 2017 full-duration hotfire test of their second-stage NewtonFour rocket engine. Here's the video; probably would be reliable sources with published info as well. N2e (talk) 03:45, 11 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

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public offering

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perhaps the public offering should be mentioned.

https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-keeps-long-term-focus-as-shares-make-public-debut/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.39.2.48 (talk) 15:15, 12 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

The reference above concerns Virgin Galactic, a distinct company from Virgin Orbit within the Virgin Group. Virgin Orbit is a spinoff of Virgin Galctic and is a separate company. Virgin Orbit is not publicly traded.

LauncherOne Section

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In the LauncherOne section, the current precedent is to list every launch. This seems a little redundant especially since it has its own article. I propose a rewrite of that section with only the first launch and successful launch. VTVL (talk) 22:38, 4 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Agree - but despite agreeing :-) I've just edited the section as-is to make the situation with the most recent launch more clear. When I was doing this I noticed how much info about the Cornwall launch was dumped elsewhere in the article, and the secondary sources aren't a great fit with policy either. I think this is because of the difficulty of pulling the headline level needed for this article out of domain sources, which cover the detail needed for the LauncherOne article but aren't the right sources for the "newsworthy" tone of this article. It would be better not to mix the two because I think it would help avoid accidental WP:OR.
If this move takes place it would also fix another issue where the Cornwall launch appears in "other projects" even though it's now a headline historical launch. Zaack23 (talk) 10:49, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Mubadala?

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I can't find any mention of Virgin Orbit on mubadala.com. What's up with that? Ds77 (talk) 22:41, 16 March 2023 (UTC)Reply