Virgin Orbit comes to a standstill
Virgin Orbit is putting its operations and staff on hiatus as it seeks to find some money from somewhere.
The space launch company has had a rough time of it of late, having scaled back its proposed missions for last year, and essentially failed in its first UK orbital launch in January. Now it appears to be facing an investment crisis and is trying to buy some time to solve it.
On Wednesday company employees were told they would be furloughed without pay with Virgin Orbit ceasing operations for
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