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Bit of column A and bit of column B, for sure, but VO has probably been one of the worst at overhyping and underdelivering.

It doesn't help that they went full-Brexit, that sort of thing is bound to be offputting to foreign capital.

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It’s also worth mentioning the VSS disaster, which ended up setting all of Branson’s space flight endeavors back significantly and you could probably make the case indirectly caused the downfall of this subsidiary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash

> It doesn't help that they went full-Brexit, that sort of thing is bound to be offputting to foreign capital.

WDYM? Virgin Orbital Inc. are incorporated in the US and listed on the NASDAQ.

They made a lot out of the fact that they'd be launching from the UK, pandering to governments desperate to somehow prove that the country isn't backsliding after brexit.

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