VIDEO footage of Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit rocket crashing back to Earth has surfaced.
On Monday evening, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket attempted to make history as the first-ever orbital space launch from British soil.
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However, the rocket came crashing down to Earth in a fiery blaze shortly after launching from
And now footage captured by observer Ramón López has surfaced, showing the rocket’s quick descent to Earth.
López caught the jaw-dropping footage from Lanzarote, one of the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of Africa.
In the video, LauncherOne’s first stage is seen crashing back to Earth at around 6:18 p.m. EST (2318 GMT).
Earlier that evening, the booster had successfully launched from Cornwall Spaceport in Newquay.
