The failure of a high-pressure liquid-oxygen feed line triggered a premature engine shutdown during the debut flight of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket, the company said on July 27. The long-awaited LauncherOne demonstration flight was “a day of extreme joy … and a bit of disappointment, which in...
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