{"id":118569,"date":"2021-01-15T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/virgin-orbit-targets-sunday-for-launcherone-mission-from-california"},"modified":"2021-01-15T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:22:54","slug":"virgin-orbit-targets-sunday-for-launcherone-mission-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/virgin-orbit-targets-sunday-for-launcherone-mission-from-california","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Orbit targets Sunday for LauncherOne mission from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-orbit-targets-sunday-for-launcherone-mission-from-california.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 15 (UPI) \u2014 Virgin Orbit plans to try again Sunday to send 10 small science satellites for NASA and several universities into orbit using a rocket launched over the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. PST when Virgin\u2019s Cosmic Girl aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, takes off from Mojave Air and Space Port 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The plane carries the LauncherOne rocket under its wing.<\/p>\n<p>The company created a three-hour window for potential last-minute delays. Virgin scrubbed an attempt in December when employees entered quarantine because of COVID-19 exposure. The company also delayed the launch from last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 15 (UPI) \u2014 Virgin Orbit plans to try again Sunday to send 10 small science satellites for NASA and several universities into orbit using a rocket launched over the Pacific Ocean. The mission is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. PST when Virgin\u2019s Cosmic Girl aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, takes off [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}