Virgin Orbit Resumes Some Operations in Bid to Shake off Crisis

The Virgin Orbit ‘Cosmic Girl’ Boeing 747 launch aircraft.Photographer: James Beck/Bloomberg
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Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc. said it’s targeting “an incremental resumption of operations” after temporarily halting activities last week in the wake of a failed satellite launch a few months ago that threw the ambitious space program off course.

“Our first step will begin Thursday of this week, when we plan to return a subset of our team to focus on critical areas for our next mission,” Virgin Orbit said in a statement. “We are looking forward to getting back to our mission and returning to orbit.”