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Blue Origin vs Virgin Galactic (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

billionaire space company suddenly realizing they miscalculated how much other billionaires were going to want off the hellhole rock they created
Still got a lot of years of lootin' and plunderin' to do, they ain't leavin yet

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

They tried pivoting to orbital launch. It failed so badly they didn’t try again.

[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Virgin Orbit? Yeaahh it's not too surprising that they shut down after all the launch failures. It's a little disappointing that they were one of the few launch startups with some differentiation. It was a dead end that didn't make sense as the main thing for a public company, but it would have been cool as a little product line that flies 10x a year for some bigger company. Rip.

this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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