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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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Virgin Galactic are collaborating to assess the potential for utilizing LLNL sensor systems aboard Virgin Galactic launch vehicles.
Virgin Galactic's launch vehicle has performance characteristics that can support a variety of high-altitude mission needs.
The collaboration explores the unique combination of altitudes, endurance, and payload capacity of Virgin Galactic’s launch vehicles for advancing LLNL’s optical sensing technologies.
Virgin Galactic Holdings plans to repurchase and retire approximately $355 million in aggregate principal amount of its 2.50% convertible senior notes due 2027.
Chris Hadfield advises SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Astrolab, and Planet, and is a director of public and private companies.
The project is part of the agreement between ENAC and Virgin Galactic.
The crew for the Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceflight includes students, faculty, and alumni from Purdue University.
Purdue University is pursuing research and learning aboard a Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceflight with an all-Boilermaker crew.
Virgin Galactic provides 'space tourism' through suborbital flights, also known as ballistic flights.
Virgin Galactic and Purdue University announced the microgravity experience mission 'Purdue 1' on September 23.
Virgin Galactic's mothership, 'Virgin MotherShip Eve,' ascends to an altitude of 15 km with the spacecraft 'Virgin SpaceShip Unity.'
Virgin Galactic is developing the 'Delta Class' as a successor to Unity.
Mike Moses, president of Virgin Galactic's SpaceLine division and a Purdue University alumnus, stated that the mission with Purdue University demonstrates what is possible when research institutions and educators gain direct access to microgravity environments.
The Futures in Space gallery includes flight hardware such as a Falcon 9 grid fin and the hybrid rocket motor that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo used on its first suborbital spaceflight in 2018.
The Futures in Space gallery includes a set of commercial astronaut wings awarded by the FAA to Virgin Galactic’s Beth Moses.
The Futures in Space gallery displays flight hardware including a Falcon 9 grid fin and the hybrid rocket motor that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo used on its first suborbital spaceflight in 2018.
Virgin Galactic has used a part of the 2360–2395 megahertz band for numerous launches of its suborbital spaceplane and has not received complaints about interference.
Virgin Galactic announced plans in November to raise $300,000,000 to accelerate development of additional spaceplanes and a mothership aircraft for Spaceport America.
Virgin Galactic’s financial projections disclosed in August envision Spaceport America hosting 275 flights a year using four spaceplanes and two mothership aircraft and generating nearly $1,000,000,000 in annual revenue.
Altec and Virgin Galactic reached an earlier agreement in 2016 to begin examinations of SpaceShipTwo flights from Italy.