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World Service,24 May 2023,26 mins

What went wrong for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit?

World Business Report

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Just months after its first ever satellite mission in the UK reached space, Sir Richard Branson's firm has shut down. Will Bain finds out why it failed to take off, and what its collapse tells us about the cost of the space information race. We hear about the business of running a business in one of Kenya's biggest refugee camps. And it's a $2 billion industry, but is the message of gospel being lost in the secular world of commercialism? (Photo: The Virgin Orbit building is seen after the company paused operations last week, in Long Beach, California, U.S., March 22, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo)

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