Virgin Orbit: Richard Branson's rocket firm files for bankruptcy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65172594
It is for the employees another British failure for it’s ambition for independent satellite launch capabilities and the hope that Virgin could for. Never mind we can do what we usually do and pay Russia to do it for us, oh wait maybe not.
Oh no! How will The Sun manage to fill its pages on slow news days now? Every year, especially during the summer “Silly Season” when Parliament is in recess and journos slope off to Tuscany, they’d always run stories about how the Virgin space plane and/or hypersonic passenger aircraft that can circumnavigate the globe in an hour will revolutionise travel and tourism over the next decade. They’ve been republishing substantially the same article for about 30 years, so now they’re going to have to find some other “5 years into the future” techno-bullshit to peddle. My money is on cold nuclear fusion or megawatt batteries that charge in less than a minute.
That’s a very odd distribution. Was that today, because I went to see about getting a couple of tyres fitted to my Shed on Wheels earlier, but they couldn’t give me a price or book an appointment (because their diary is in The Cloud) because their internetz was down. The perils of trusting tech and having all your digital eggs in one basket…..
I haven’t got it fitted, believe it’s zoom who are the fibre fellas round here. We’re proper Copper wire here still, not a day goes by without there being an engineer at the Green box with his head in there.
Don’t worry I think Virgin Galactic is still going (strong?) Orbit is just his commercial satellite taxi service.
this is pretty out there but the two other dogs I believe is because he owns at least one entire island in that region, which may be connected back to Uk
Almost certainly. In this country we have socialism for the super rich (bail outs and govt subsidies) and capitalism for everyone else (fvck you - pay for it yourselves).
Virgin Orbit is (was) privately funded. Virgin Galactic is his proposed shuttle service to the edge of space. That’s what any advance bookings have been taken for. All joking apart it’s a massive blow for the British space industry because launching rockets and satellites from height makes perfect sense and we had a chance to be European leaders in this.