{"id":486309,"date":"2023-01-10T06:40:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=486309"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:34:41","slug":"first-uk-rocket-launch-ends-in-failure-after-suffering-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/first-uk-rocket-launch-ends-in-failure-after-suffering-anomaly","title":{"rendered":"First UK rocket launch ends in failure after suffering &#8216;anomaly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt to make British space history by launching a rocket into orbit from UK soil has ended in failure after suffering an &#8220;anomaly&#8221; during the flight. After taking off from Cornwall , the Virgin Orbit plane flew to 35,000ft over the Atlantic Ocean where it jettisoned the rocket containing nine small satellites towards space. Organisers of the Start Me Up mission said the rocket &#8211; with a variety of civil and defence applications &#8211; failed to orbit. In a series of tweets, Virgin Orbit said: &#8220;We appear to have an anomaly that has prevented us from reaching orbit. We are evaluating the information. &#8220;As we find out more, we&#8217;re removing our previous tweet about reaching orbit. We&#8217;ll share more info when we can.&#8221; We appear to have an anomaly that has prevented us from reaching orbit. We are evaluating the information. &#8212; Virgin Orbit (@VirginOrbit) January 9, 2023 Early on Tuesday morning, Virgin Orbit issued a statement which said:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt to make British space history by launching a rocket into orbit from UK soil has ended in failure after suffering an &#8220;anomaly&#8221; during the flight.After taking off from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}