One faulty fuel filter scuttled Virgin Orbit’s big UK launch debut

Launch is hard, but at least now that every rocket is sending extremely detailed live telemetry back to HQ, teams can know what led to a failed launch within days or weeks. Case in point: Virgin Orbit’s much-hyped first launch from U.K. soil last month, which did not achieve orbit — apparently due to a single loose fuel filter.
In an update posted today to its website, Virgin Orbit explained first that everything went perfectly at every step leading up to the issue, including ignition, first-stage flight, stage separation, second-stage ignition and fair deployment — all moments when miss

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