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https://virginorbit.com/the-latest/intr ... -part-one/De BRIK II is een kleine satelliet, iets groter dan een pak melk.
Het apparaatje zal door de luchtmacht worden gebruikt voor inlichtingen,
onder meer op het gebied van navigatie en communicatie.
Launch platform:The Royal Netherlands Air Force, which is launching the Netherlands’ first military satellite,
a CubeSat called BRIK II,
built and integrated by Innovative Solutions in Space,
with contributions from the University of Oslo, the Delft University of Technology, and Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre.
Launch Timing
June 2021
Mission Name: “Tubular Bells, Part One”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Girl_(aircraft)
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/virgi ... e-in-june/Type Boeing 747-41R 44/32/310 [1][2][3]
Manufacturer Boeing
Construction number 32745 [2][3]
Manufactured 2001 [1]
Registration
G-VWOW (2001 – 2015 with Virgin Atlantic) [1]
N744VG (2015 – onwards with Virgin Galactic[4] and Virgin Orbit[5])
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brik-II_(satellite)The mission will be conducted from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California on a yet-to-be-announced date in June.
The rocket will be shipped out to the Mojave site “in the coming days” for prelaunch operations, the company said.
Virgin Orbit will offer a public livestream of the mission on its website.
Virgin Orbit is part of a small cohort of private orbital launch companies that have actually sent payloads to space.
As opposed to providers like SpaceX, which uses massive rockets similar to legacy designs from agencies like NASA,
LauncherOne is essentially a 747 that’s been retrofitted with a rocket.
Besides being smaller and able to take off from traditional airplane runways,
the 747 saves on costs by being completely reusable.
The Brik-II satellite is named after the first airplane of the Royal Netherlands Airforce, named 'Brik'.