Earlier it was reported that Virgin Orbit for the first time made an attempt to launch a rocket with nine satellites on board from a Boeing-747 aircraft in the UK.
“It looks like we encountered an anomaly that prevented us from reaching orbit.
We analyze the information,” the company said on Twitter.
It is specified that the plane safely returned to the airfield along with the crew.
Earlier, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Josef Aschbacher, said that Europe's access to space could be in jeopardy due to the crisis with launchers.
On December 21, a European Vega-C rocket carrying two satellites crashed after launch.