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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Virgin Galactic has flown research experiments on all previous spaceflights.
Virgin Galactic is uniquely suited to fly both autonomous and human-tended experiments.
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. announced an agreement with Axiom Space to support a microgravity research and training mission.
Virgin Galactic's spaceflight will conduct microgravity research to supplement the work the astronaut will do on the International Space Station.
Virgin Galactic's pilot-controlled parabolic trajectory can be adjusted to the specific needs of the payloads on board.
Virgin Galactic is reserving 10 percent of its first 1,000 seats for science and technology research missions.
The Virgin Galactic spaceflight, tentatively scheduled for next year, will prepare an Axiom Space astronaut for an upcoming trip to orbit.
Virgin Galactic plans to begin revenue-generating payload flights with Delta-class vehicles as soon as late 2025 and private astronaut flights in 2026.
Virgin Galactic will perform final assembly of the new carrier aircraft at an existing company factory in Mojave, California.
Virgin Galactic reached agreements with Bell Textron and Qarbon Aerospace on 2022-11-02 to produce major subassemblies of its Delta-class suborbital spaceplanes.
Virgin Galactic has not conducted a spaceflight since July 2021, when VSS Unity reached space with company founder Richard Branson on board.
Virgin Galactic was expected to provide an update on returning to commercial service when it released its third quarter financial results after markets closed on 2022-11-03.
Virgin Galactic announced plans to sell up to $300,000,000 in stock.
Virgin Galactic had $1,100,000,000 in cash and cash equivalents at the end of the second quarter.
Virgin Galactic previously delayed the start of VSS Unity commercial flights from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023.
Virgin Galactic is performing refurbishment work on VMS Eve at its factory in Mojave, California.
Virgin Galactic will contract with suppliers to produce major components of the Delta-class vehicles, which will then be assembled in Mesa.
VSS Imagine, a spaceplane being built by Virgin Galactic at its Mojave, California factory, is designed to perform two flights per month.
Virgin Galactic estimates it will create more than 1,000 new jobs as part of its expanded footprint.
On 2022-07-06, Virgin Galactic selected Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing subsidiary, to produce major components of two aircraft that will be assembled at Virgin Galactic’s Mojave factory.