Richard Branson's history of failed ロケット／急騰する 開始する，打ち上げるs: As historic Cornwall 使節団 is scuppered, MailOnline 明らかにする／漏らすs how the 億万長者's Virgin space 投機・賭けるs have been 疫病／悩ますd by 後退s ? 含むing the death of a 操縦する in 2014

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Not content with winning the 億万長者 space race and experiencing the feeling of 無重量状態 himself, Sir Richard Branson wants to 征服する／打ち勝つ low-Earth 軌道 and make it his own.

The Virgin 創立者 計画（する）s to carry out his first space 観光旅行，事業 使節団 from the US later this year and has grand 見通しs of （電話線からの）盗聴 into the £4 billion 衛星 産業, in part with the help of the new £20 million Spaceport Cornwall.

But those aspirations were dealt a bitter blow on Monday night when Virgin 軌道's LauncherOne ロケット／急騰する, which had hitched a ride on a 特に-adapted 747 巨大な jet that took off from the Newquay 場所／位置, failed to reach 軌道 and was 最終的に lost.

It is not the first time Branson's Virgin 軌道 or Virgin Galactic space 投機・賭けるs have 耐えるd failed 開始する，打ち上げるs, and it probably won't be the last ― but how does their success 率 compare to the likes of SpaceX, Blue Origin and 航空宇宙局's now retired Space 往復（する） programme?

In 2021, Sir Richard Branson flew to the 辛勝する／優位 of space in his Virgin Galactic ロケット／急騰する 計画（する） ― （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing アマゾン 創立者 Jeff Bezos and Space X's Elon Musk in the 億万長者 space race

The bad news for Branson is the answer is not that favourably.?

分析 by MailOnline 明らかにする／漏らすs that the Virgin owner 追跡するs 億万長者 競争相手s Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos when it comes to 開始する，打ち上げる success 率 百分率.

He sits at 91.35 per cent, while Musk's SpaceX has logged an impressive 97.1 per cent and Bezos a more than respectable 95.65 per cent.

航空宇宙局 no longer carries out its own 開始する，打ち上げるs?― instead relying on Russia and now 私的な companies such as SpaceX に引き続いて the 退職 of the Space 往復（する） in 2011.

But for comparison, that programme had a 開始する，打ち上げる success 率 of 98.51 per cent.

There were 133 successful Space 往復（する） 使節団s but a total of 14 宇宙飛行士s 死なせる／死ぬd に引き続いて the loss of 挑戦者 in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.

For the 目的 of this 分析, a 開始する，打ち上げる was みなすd a 失敗 if it did not 達成する its main 客観的な, there was a serious 機能不全, or the ロケット／急騰する/（手先の）技術 was lost.

Branson's most high-profile and 壊滅的な space 開始する，打ち上げる 失敗 occurred in 2014, when Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo 衝突，墜落d in California's Mojave 砂漠, 殺人，大当り co-操縦する Michael Alsbury and 本気で 負傷させるing 操縦する Peter Siebold.

The （手先の）技術 was 飛行機で行くing a 乗組員を乗せた 実験（する） when it 分裂（する） into pieces.?

捜査官／調査官s later 結論するd that the 衝突，墜落 was 原因（となる）d by 構造上の 失敗 after?Alsbury 打ち明けるd a ブレーキing system 早期に.?

Branson said at the time that he was 'shocked and saddened' by the '悲劇の loss'.

Then Virgin Galactic CEO and 大統領，／社長 George Whitesides 追加するd: 'Space is hard, and today was a 堅い day.

'We are going to be supporting the 調査 as we 人物／姿／数字 out what ha ppened today and we are going to get through it.'?

It is one of five 開始する，打ち上げる 失敗s in the 19-year history of Virgin Galactic, compared to 70 successful 使節団s.?

Branson, 72, had believed in 2004 that 商業の space travel was just three years away, but a string of 失敗s followed which 急落（する），激減（する）d the 未来 of Virgin Galactic into 疑問.

In 2007, three people were killed and several others 本気で 負傷させるd when a 戦車／タンク of nitrous 酸化物 爆発させるd and destroyed a 実験（する） stand.

破滅的な: Britain's historic first ever 軌道の space 開始する，打ち上げる on UK 国／地域 劇的な failed last night, after Virgin 軌道 明らかにする／漏らすd that an 'anomaly' had 妨げるd its ロケット／急騰する from reaching 軌道. Pict ured is the moment the ロケット／急騰する 点火（する）d

LauncherOne never reached its 的 高度 to 解放（する） a payload of nine 衛星s into 軌道 and was 最終的に lost ― either 燃やすing up in the Earth's atmosphere or breaking apart over the north 大西洋

A その上の four years after that Virgin's?SpaceShipTwo 機能不全d during re-入ること／参加（者）, although its 操縦するs managed to 訂正する the problem.?

There were also two minor hiccups in 2016 伴う／関わるing 試みる／企てるs to carry out the first glide flight for the company's VSS まとまり space 計画（する）, while in 2021 the （手先の）技術 was 一時的に grounded by the US 連邦の 航空 行政.

The regulator 調査／捜査するd Virgin Galactic after?まとまり わずかに deviated from the 領空 that had been reserved for it during Branson's momentous flight to space in July of that year.

The?連邦の 航空 Administra tion later 解除するd a no-飛行機で行く order on Virgin Galactic in September 2021.?

Virgin 軌道, which was formed in 2017 and has a 開始する，打ち上げる system that has been in 操作／手術 for just over two years, has now experienced gremlins on 33 per cent of its flights.

Branson's most high-profile and 壊滅的な space 開始する，打ち上げる 失敗 occurred in 2014, when Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo 衝突，墜落d in California's Mojave 砂漠, 殺人，大当り co-操縦する Michael Alsbury and 本気で 負傷させるing 操縦する Peter Siebold

The （手先の）技術 was 飛行機で行くing a 乗組員を乗せた 実験（する） when it experienced what Virgin Galactic 述べるd at the time as 'a serious anomaly'

WHAT CAUSED VIRGIN GALACTIC'S 2014 CRASH THAT KILLED ONE PILOT AND INJURED ANOTHER?

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo - a 計画（する） designed to run the first ever 乗客 flights into space - 分裂（する） into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave 砂漠 during a 実験（する） flight in October 2014.

The 衝突，墜落?killed 39-year-old 操縦する?Michael Alsbury and 本気で 負傷させるd co-操縦する?Peter Siebold, 43, while 破片 from the 崩壊するd 航空機 was spread over a wide area.

The 乗り物 broke up after Alsbury 打ち明けるd the （手先の）技術's tail wing ブレーキing system 早期に, which led to a sudden 増加する in aerodynamic 軍隊s as it passed through the sound 障壁.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo - a 計画（する） designed to run the first ever 乗客 flights into space - 分裂（する） into pieces (権利) as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave 砂漠 during a 実験（する） flight in October 2014

A 2015 NTSB 報告（する）／憶測 設立する that the co-操縦する 打ち明けるd the いわゆる feathering system 早期に at Mach 0.92 instead of the ーするつもりであるd 速度(を上げる） of Mach 1.4.

The feathering system helps to 増加する drag and slows the 宇宙船 負かす／撃墜する for re-入ること／参加（者）.?

簡単に 打ち明けるing the 宇宙船's ブレーキs shouldn't have 適用するd them, but 捜査官／調査官s said that might have happened anyway as a result of aerodynamic 軍隊s.

The 衝突，墜落 killed 39-year-old 操縦する Michael Alsbury and 本気で 負傷させるd co-操縦する Peter Siebold, 43, while 破片 from the 崩壊するd 航空機 was spread over a wide area

The resulting 強調する／ストレス may have 与える／捧げるd to the 宇宙船's 破壊.?

捜査官／調査官s at the 国家の Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said no 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限s were built into system to 打ち勝つ the error of the co-操縦する.

宣伝

同様に as the misfiring of the first 軌道の space 開始する，打ち上げる on British 国／地域 last night, its maiden 使節団 in the US also failed, while in between were four successful flights.

The 就任の 使節団 in 2020 went wrong a few seconds after the ignition of the LauncherOne ロケット／急騰する. It was 非難するd on a premature shutdown of the first 行う／開催する／段階 engine, 原因（となる）d by a break in a propellant 料金d line, and meant the ロケット／急騰する did not reach 軌道.?

But spaceflight is 悪名高くも hard, so what about Virgin's 競争相手s?

The ビデオs of SpaceX's reusable ロケット／急騰する boosters either 爆発するing on the launchpad or while 試みる／企てるing to land on a drone ship have been much publicised.

It took the company about four years of trying before a Falcon 9 ロケット／急騰する 首尾よく touched 負かす／撃墜する 無傷の in 2015, with SpaceX 劇的な 規模ing up its 開始する，打ち上げる 能力s since then.

Musk's company has now sent 201 ロケット／急騰するs up to space, having had five 試みる／企てるd 解除する-offs go wrong and one 部分的に／不公平に fail.?

The ビデオs of SpaceX's reusable ロケット／急騰する boosters either 爆発するing on the launchpad or while 試みる／企てるing to land on a drone ship have been much publicised

Musk's company has now sent 201 ロケット／急騰するs up to space, having had five 試みる／企てるd 解除する-offs go wrong and one 部分的に／不公平に fail

SpaceX is the market leader ーに関して／ーの点でs of 量 and its Dragon 宇宙船 is 現在／一般に 存在 used by 航空宇宙局 to フェリー（で運ぶ） 宇宙飛行士s to and from the International Space 駅／配置する.

Musk's 広大な／多数の／重要な 競争相手 Jeff Bezos?? who was beaten into space by Branson by just nine days in 2021?? is somewhat playing catch-up, にもかかわらず having also sent several celebrities on suborbital flights 船内に his New Shepard ロケット／急騰する.

He may have a better success 率 than Branson, but that doesn't tell the whole story.

Blue Origin has only carried out 23 flights of its New Shepard ロケット／急騰する so far and had one 失敗?― which is why Bezos' success 率 is up at 95 per cent.

That 事故 （機の）カム only a few months ago, when the ロケット／急騰する company was 軍隊d to 中止する a space 使節団 中央の-flight.

Its uncrewed booster 機能不全d around a minute after leaving the launchpad in Texas in September, the second such 'anomaly' Blue Origin has experienced in its 22-year history.

The first occurred in 2015, when a New Shepard booster 衝突，墜落d instead of 上陸.

However, its uncrewed 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル 首尾よく reached suborbital space and returned 安全に, so the 使節団 was only a 部分的な／不平等な 失敗.

Blue Origin has only carried out 23 flights of its New Shepard ロケット／急騰する so far and had one 失敗 ― which is why his success 率 is up at 95 per cent.?That 事故 （機の）カム only a few months ago

Blue Origin 創立者 Jeff Bezos was beaten into space by Branson by just nine days in 2021?

It should be pointed out that spaceflight is never 平易な and にもかかわらず Branson's 失敗s he is still 権利 at the 最前部 of the race to 定期的に 飛行機で行く tourists to space, once again hoping to 現れる 勝利を得た over 競争相手s Bezos and Musk.

Virgin Galactic's next 研究 flight ? まとまり 23 ? is 推定する／予想するd to happen this summer, although it has been 繰り返して 延期するd, and 商業の flights will start after that.?

にもかかわらず its 失敗 in Cornwall, Virgin 軌道 is scheduled to carry out two more 衛星 開始する，打ち上げるs in the Mojave 砂漠 in January and February, along with four others later in 2023.

Both the UK Space 機関 and Spaceport Cornwall have said Virgin 軌道 will try another 開始する，打ち上げる in the '近づく 未来', but no timeline has been 供給するd by Branson's company.

It says it will 'work tirelessly' to 設立する the 原因（となる） of the failed UK 開始する，打ち上げる, but questions remain over the viability of the cash-strapped company's 未来.

株 in Virgin 軌道 急落するd by as much as 30 per cent as the 演劇 広げるd in 前線 of the 注目する，もくろむs of the world last night, wiping?$200 million (£164 million) off the 会社／堅い's value.

At the start of November,?Branson's Virgin Group was 軍隊d to 注入する $25 million (£20 million) into the company just days before it 報告（する）／憶測d a 逮捕する loss of $139.5 million (£117 million) for the first nine months of 2022.

航空宇宙局 開始する，打ち上げるd 133 successful Space 往復（する） 使節団s but seven 宇宙飛行士s 死なせる／死ぬd in the 挑戦者 災害 in 1986

The Space 往復（する） Columbia broke up on re-入ること／参加（者） in 2003, 殺人，大当り all seven 宇宙飛行士s onboard

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Jeff Bezos in 前線 of Blue Origin's space 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル

Dubbed the 'NewSpace' 始める，決める, Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk all say they were 奮起させるd by the first moon 上陸 in 1969, when the US （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Soviet Union in the space race, and there is no 疑問 how much it would mean to each of them to 勝利，勝つ the 'new space race'.

Amazo n 創立者 Bezos had looked 始める，決める to be the first of the three to 飛行機で行く to space, having 発表するd 計画（する）s to 開始する，打ち上げる 船内に his space company Blue Origin's New Shepard 宇宙船 on July 20, but Branson （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 him to the punch.

The British 億万長者 became Virgin Galactic 宇宙飛行士 001 when he made it to space on a suborbital flight nine days before Bezos - on July 11 in a 実験（する） flight.

Bezos travelled to space on July 20 with his younger brother 示す,?Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student whose dad 購入（する）d his ticket, and 開拓するing 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士 Wally Funk, 82.

Although SpaceX and Tesla 創立者 Musk has said he wants to go into space, and even 'die on 火星', he has not said when he might 爆破 into 軌道 - but has 購入（する）d a ticket with Virgin Galactic for a suborbital flight.

SpaceX became the first of the 'space 観光旅行，事業' 操作者s to send a fully 非軍事の 乗組員 into 軌道, with the Inspiration4 使節団 基金d by 億万長者 Jared Isaacman.?

His flight was on a Dragon 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル and SpaceX ロケット／急騰する built by space-obsessed 億万長者, Elon Musk and took off for the three day 軌道の trip on September 16 - going higher than the International Space 駅／配置する.?

SpaceX appears to be 主要な the way in the broader 億万長者 space race with 非常に／多数の 開始する，打ち上げるs carrying 航空宇宙局 器具／備品 to the ISS and 共同s to send tourists to space by 2021.??

On February 6 2018, SpaceX sent ロケット／急騰する に向かって the 軌道 of 火星, 140 million miles away, with Musk's own?red Tesla roadster 大（公）使館員d.?

Elon Musk with his Dragon 乗組員 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル

SpaceX has also taken two groups of 宇宙飛行士s to the |International Space 駅／配置する, with 乗組員 from 航空宇宙局, ESA and JAXA, the Japanese space 機関.?

SpaceX has been sending （製品，工事材料の）一回分s of 60 衛星s into space to help form its Starlink 網状組織, which is already in beta and 供給するing 急速な／放蕩な internet to 田舎の areas.?

Branson and Virgin Galactic are taking a different approach to 征服する／打ち勝つing space.?It has 繰り返して, and 首尾よく, 行為／行うd 実験（する） flights of the?Virgin Galactic's まとまり space 計画（する）.?

The first took place in December 2018 and the 最新の on May 22, with the?flight 加速するing to more than 2,000 miles per hour (Mach 2.7).?

More than 600 豊富な 顧客s to date, 含むing celebrities Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have reserved a $250,000 (£200,000) seat on one of Virgin's space trips. The final tickets are 推定する／予想するd to cost $350,000.

Branson has 以前 said he 推定する／予想するs Elon Musk to 勝利，勝つ the race to 火星 with his 私的な ロケット／急騰する 会社／堅い SpaceX.?

Richard Branson with the Virgin Galactic （手先の）技術

SpaceShipTwo can carry six 乗客s and two 操縦するs. Each 乗客 gets the same seating position with two large windows - one to the 味方する and one 総計費.

The space ship is 60ft long with a 90inch 直径 cabin 許すing 最大限 room for the 宇宙飛行士s to float in 無 gravity.

It climbs to 50,000ft before the ロケット／急騰する engine 点火（する）s. SpaceShipTwo separates from its 運送／保菌者 （手先の）技術, White Knight II, once it has passed the 50-mile 示す.

乗客s become '宇宙飛行士s' when they reach the Karman line, the 境界 of Earth's atmosphere.

The spaceship will then make a suborbital 旅行 with だいたい six minutes of 無重量状態, with the entire flight 継続している だいたい 1.5 hours.

Bezos 明らかにする／漏らすd in April 2017 that he 財政／金融s Blue Origin with around $1 billion (£720 million) of アマゾン 在庫／株 each year.

The system consists of a pressurised 乗組員 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル 頂上に a reusable 'New Shepard' booster ロケット／急騰する.????

At its 頂点（に達する）, the 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル reached 65 miles (104 kilometres), just above the 公式の／役人 threshold for space and landed vertically seven minutes after liftoff.?

Blue Origin are working on New Glenn, the next 世代 激しい 解除する ロケット／急騰する, that will compete with the SpaceX Falcon 9.?