Operator file · US-199
Virgin Orbit
Virgin Orbit is a commercial launch operator based in United States of America, founded in 2017. The register credits it with 6 launches flown under its own name — 4 successful, 2 failed, a lifetime success rate of 66.7%. It is not flying anything inside the current manifest window.
Flight record
Launch statistics
Counts are launches filed under VO’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library register. They are not a count of missions or payloads: a spacecraft that flew on a contracted vehicle is credited to the operator that flew it.
Who flies for them, and who they fly for
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and it is the operator’s name the launch schedule filters by. A customer funds the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Plenty of organisations are both. VO is counted below in whichever role the current manifest actually gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight in the current window names VO while being operated by somebody else.
How this is counted: a scheduled launch is treated as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation appears in the launch name, mission name or programme and somebody else is flying it. Mission descriptions are not searched, and the window is one batch of the next launches worldwide, reaching to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z — so both counts are a floor, not a complete manifest.
About VO
Virgin Orbit is a company within the Virgin Group which plans to provide launch services for small satellites. The company was formed in 2017 to develop the air-launched LauncherOne rocket, launched from Cosmic Girl, which had previously been a project of Virgin Galactic. Based in Long Beach, California, Virgin Orbit has more than 300 employees led by president Dan Hart, a former vice president of government satellite systems at Boeing. Virgin Orbit focuses on small satellite launch, which is one of three capabilities being focused on by Virgin Galactic. These capabilities are: human spaceflight operations, small satellite launch, and advanced aerospace design, manufacturing, and test
Upcoming launches
Manifest
VO is not flying anything inside the current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z. Missions appear here the moment a launch date is published.
All upcoming launches“T-0 known to” is the register’s own precision on the launch time — a date good only to the month is shown as such rather than counted down as if it were exact. A go-probability appears only where the operator published one for that flight; Delta-V does not calculate it and it is not a forecast made here.
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Common questions
- How many launches has Virgin Orbit flown?
- Virgin Orbit has 6 launches on record under its own name, of which 4 succeeded and 2 failed. The register counts launches flown under an operator's own name, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is Virgin Orbit's success rate?
- Virgin Orbit has a lifetime launch success rate of 66.7%, calculated as 4 successful flights out of 6 attempts.
- When is Virgin Orbit's next launch?
- Virgin Orbit is not flying anything inside Delta-V's current manifest window, which reaches to 2026-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does Virgin Orbit fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- Virgin Orbit has 6 launches flown under its own name in the launch register. It is not the operator on any flight in the current manifest window. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count; a customer funds the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule lists only the former, which is why a well-known agency can be central to a flight and still not appear on it.
- Where is Virgin Orbit based?
- Virgin Orbit is based in United States of America and the register classifies it as a commercial operator. It was founded in 2017.