Where now for UK space travel after Virgin's launch fail?

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Jan 11, 2023•12 min

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What links Richard Branson, the Rolling Stones and space travel? The answer was meant to lie in the British skies in an attempt to make UK space history this week.

Yet things quickly did not go to plan.

So what was Virgin Orbit's mission? Why did it fail? And what does it mean for the future of UK space travel?

ITV News' Martin Stew tells Daniel Hewitt what you need to know...

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