Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson, is a British-American spaceflight company focused on providing suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and researchers. As the world's first commercial spaceline, it develops and operates its own reusable spaceflight systems, including the SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo. While the company is shifting its focus to Delta class vehicles for commercial service in 2026, its current partners include Redwire for manufacturing research payload lockers and it operates from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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VMS Eve was built by Scaled Composites in Mojave for Virgin Galactic and was unveiled in 2008.
Shares in Virgin Galactic closed up 13.6% in trading on 2023-02-15.
Space firms that went public through SPAC deals include Astra, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, BlackSky, Spire, AST SpaceMobile, Satellogic, Planet, Terran Orbital, Virgin Galactic, Redwire, and Momentus.
SpaceShipTwo’s July 2021 flight took company founder Richard Branson beyond the 80-kilometer boundary that Virgin Galactic and U.S. government agencies define as space.
Swami Iyer joined Virgin Galactic in February 2021 after working for several aerospace and defense companies.
Mike Moses has worked at Virgin Galactic since 2011 in positions overseeing flight and mission operations.
On 2023-01-12, Virgin Galactic created a streamlined management structure as it prepared to begin commercial operations.
Virgin Galactic has reserved 10 percent of its first 1,000 seats for science and technology research missions.
Virgin Galactic's pilot-controlled parabolic trajectory can be adjusted to the specific needs of the payloads on board.
The Virgin Galactic spaceflight is tentatively scheduled for next year.
The Virgin Galactic spaceflight will prepare an Axiom Space astronaut for an upcoming trip to orbit.
The Virgin Galactic spaceflight will conduct microgravity research to supplement work on the International Space Station.
Virgin Galactic's platform is a resource for Axiom astronauts preparing for long-duration missions.
Virgin Galactic has an agreement with Axiom Space to support a microgravity research and training mission.
Virgin Galactic announced plans in March 2021 to develop VSS Imagine as the first of two Spaceship III vehicles alongside VSS Inspire.
Virgin Galactic reported a net loss of $146,000,000 in the third quarter and revenue of $767,000 for the third quarter.
Virgin Galactic announced an agreement with Axiom Space to fly a microgravity research and training mission tentatively scheduled for 2023 to train an Axiom astronaut for a later orbital mission.
Virgin Galactic plans to begin flights of Delta-class vehicles no earlier than late 2025.
Virgin Galactic had $1,100,000,000 in cash and equivalents on hand at the end of the third quarter.
Virgin Galactic delayed work on VSS Imagine to complete flight testing of VSS Unity and to perform an extensive refurbishment of Unity and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft VMS Eve after Unity carried company founder Richard Branson to space in July 2021.