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[i]Confirming a clean release from the aircraft and a perfectly executed ignition of our main stage engine, NewtonThree. NewtonThree has burned to full duration. Confirming main engine cutoff (MECO). Still got a ways to go, but we just confirmed successful stage separation! This is a HUGE milestone, and the furthest our rocket has flown yet. C'mon LauncherOne! Hearing that we've now crossed 50 miles for the first time and are still on track. Just... wow! WELCOME TO SPACE, LAUNCHERONE! Our NewtonFour upper stage just ignited for this first time in the vacuum of space. Amazing, awesome, incredible. Fairing halves have separated. Our customers' satellites are now directly exposed to space ahead of their deployment. Stage two burn nominal. Two minutes to SECO-1. According to telemetry, LauncherOne has reached orbit! Everyone on the team who is not in mission control right now is going absolutely bonkers. Even the folks on comms are trying really hard not to sound too excited. The upper stage has shut down as planned and will coast for about 30 minutes. Then, NewtonFour will relight to circularize the orbit before we deploy our payload. In both a literal and figurative sense, this is miles beyond how far we reached in our first Launch Demo.[/i]
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