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[i]The target orbit for this mission is approximately 555km/SSO. LauncherOne has been released from Cosmic Girl! Confirming a clean separation from Cosmic Girl and successful ignition of LauncherOne's first stage rocket engine, NewtonThree. Hearing now that we've cleared Max Q, the point at which a rocket experiences the maximum amount of aerodynamic force. A beautiful full-duration burn from the NewtonThree rocket engine! Confirming main engine cutoff (MECO). Confirming successful stage separation and ignition of LauncherOne's second stage engine, NewtonFour. Shoutout to our rockstar NewtonFour team for helping us blast into orbit! LauncherOne is now officially in space! LauncherOne has once again successfully reached Earth orbit! Our mission isn’t over yet, but our congratulations to the people of the UK! This is already the first-ever orbital mission from British soil – an enormous achievement by the UK Space Agency and their partners in government! Unlike NewtonThree, which burns only once per mission, NewtonFour completes multiple burns to ensure we deploy the satellites into their target orbits. As planned, the upper stage has now shut down and will coast about halfway around Earth before the engine relights to complete the mission. [b]We appear to have an anomaly that has prevented us from reaching orbit.[/b] We are evaluating the information.[/i]
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