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Home » News » Branson failed again in space mission and sympathy, like oxygen in orbit, in short supply

Branson failed again in space mission and sympathy, like oxygen in orbit, in short supply

"Richard Branson fails at everything. Couldn't happen to nicer person, suing the NHS is a particularly low point in his life."

Politics Reporter by Politics Reporter
March 29, 2025
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Richard Branson’s attempt to enter the space race, has not gone as planned, to put it mildly.

Virgin Orbit launched nine small satellites atop a rocket dropped from a 747 jumbo jet south of Ireland on Monday,

The 747 “Cosmic Girl” jet took off from Cornwall Airport Newquay in what had been billed as the first orbital launch from the UK, but the booster suffered a failure during the climb to space and the payloads were lost, the company said.

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Rocket scientists

So what actually happened?

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Who do you think we are rocket scientists?

Luckily, Richard himself tweeted the reasons why the mission failed.

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Virgin Orbit boss Dan Hart said: “The first-time nature of this mission added layers of complexity that our team professionally managed through; however, in the end a technical failure appears to have prevented us from delivering the final orbit.”

A huge thanks to the @VirginOrbit team, @UK_CAA, @RoyalAirForce, @spacegovuk and @SpaceCornwall teams for all your hard work https://t.co/EmEp5NLFbg

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) January 10, 2023

Net worth

It is not just the rocket that took a nosedive.

He has also seen a huge amount knocked off his net worth due to the failure.

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Shares of billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Holdings plunged after one of the company's rockets failed to reach its target orbit due to a technical failure.$VORB is -17%.https://t.co/maJoJ1vTcS pic.twitter.com/sogIdqeuam

— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 10, 2023

According to The Evening Standard $106 million (£87 million) was wiped from his wealth after shares in his rocket venture tumbled. Virgin Orbit shares fell 21% in the opening minutes of trading on Wall Street.

He controls a 75% stake in the company.

Reactions

There was a lot of hard work by many people on the project.

But did many people feel sorry for him?

1.

It’s not just in space that Virgin is a failure…

‘Virgin continues to play a parasitic role in the NHS, fragmenting services, poaching NHS-trained staff & undermining NHS trusts… made worse by the fact that the company pays no corporation tax…’https://t.co/gnMJCBtd2Z

— Adam Vasco (@VascoAdam) January 10, 2023

2.

£20million down the drain:

Richard Branson's first rocket into space from UK fails.
UK space launch crew say they're gutted' after historic mission fails.https://t.co/gJgtZW3HTy

— JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #GTTO (@MyArrse) January 10, 2023

3.

Hahahaha. Richard Branson fails at everything. Couldn't happen to nicer person, suing the NHS is a particularly low point in his life

— Nick_Keith51 (@FKeith51) January 10, 2023

4.

The mission was an unequivocal failure and lost entire payload. This self congratulatory press release buries the lede, truly. Should’ve used @SpaceX. Branson is a fine marketer but strapping a rocket to a 747 is like 2001-2004 commercial space thinking. Obsolete

— heliothorn (@heliothorn) January 10, 2023

5.

Anybody else fed up with all this free advertising for tax dodging "entrepreneur" Richard Branson?

(And you know it's a con-job when four-faced Grant Shapps shows up)#VirginOrbit #CosmicGirl #StartMeUp#ToriesOut187 #GeneralElectionNow #ToryCorruption https://t.co/JondrA4cgl

— Rishi Sunak's leaving do (@raycasey2003) January 10, 2023

6.

So Richard Bransons latest venture with space rockets has failed. Shame I won’t forget that you sued the nhs for taking a contract off you. #SaveTheNHS https://t.co/hV1CViodg7

— Drew Davies ™ (@DrewDavies68) January 10, 2023

7.

This is a bit random…

I remember the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street. An incredibly extensive and eclectic range of music where you could find items unavailable. Why did it close?

— edmund184 (@edmund184) January 11, 2023

Spare a thought for him though, as he hates the word billionaire.

Sir Richard Branson: I hate the word billionaire@TomSwarbrick1 │ @richardbranson pic.twitter.com/wdmjXy4ixo

— LBC (@LBC) January 9, 2023

Jeremy Corbyn’s tweet from 2017 might sway your sympathy levels?

Perhaps our NHS could have the money back from when you sued it? https://t.co/MzIQKs2cqZ

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) July 30, 2019

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