2022-074 Success

LauncherOne | Straight Up

Jul 2, 2022, 06:53 AM UTC

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Launch Overview

Vehicle

LauncherOne

Agency

Virgin Orbit

Site / Pad

MHV / RW12/30

Outcome

Success

Flight

R06

COSPAR Designator

2022-074

Mission

Straight Up (Government/Top Secret)

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.

Vehicle & Provider

Rocket

LauncherOne

Provider

Virgin Orbit

Agency launches

5 (2 YTD)

Site launches

50 (2 YTD)

Pad launches

5 (2 YTD)

Payloads (7)

Piece Name Owner State Track
2022-074A Recurve AFRL US Track
2022-074B NACHOS-2 LANL US Track
2022-074D Slingshot 1 AERO US Track
2022-074E GPX-2 LARCN US Track
2022-074F MISR-B-1 SOCOM US Track
2022-074G CTIM-FD CLASP US Track
2022-074H Lonestar 1 SMDC US Track