Boeing 747 Virgin Orbit
Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747, named "Cosmic Girl" is seen here with the pylon fitted to its left wing that LauncherOne rockets will attach to for the company's air-launch missions.

The carrier aircraft for Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system has performed a series of test flights in preparation for upcoming flights with the rocket attached.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...