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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The contract between Virgin Galactic and Aurora called for the production of two mothership aircraft with the first aircraft to be delivered in 2025.
Virgin Galactic selected Aurora Flight Sciences in July 2022 to build a replacement mothership aircraft for VMS Eve.
Virgin Galactic projects that a fleet of four to five Delta-class spaceplanes and two mothership aircraft could support 300 to 400 flights a year from a spaceport and generate more than $1,000,000,000 a year in revenue.
Virgin Galactic expects average per-seat revenue of more than $800,000 for Galactic 07.
Virgin Galactic notified the Federal Aviation Administration of the alignment-pin incident on 2024-02-05.
Virgin Galactic has nearly $1,000,000,000 in cash and equivalents supporting development of the Delta-class vehicles.
Virgin Galactic is considering long-term options to expand operations to other sites in the United States or other countries and to expand at Spaceport America itself.
Virgin Galactic sold individual seats that had opened up on its flight manifest for close to $1,000,000 each.
Virgin Galactic is selling house seats for $600,000, which is the same price as research seats and one third higher than the previous list price of $450,000.
In November 2023, Virgin Galactic announced that SpaceShipTwo would only conduct a handful more flights before pausing operations in 2024.
Virgin Galactic plans to replace SpaceShipTwo with a new larger 'Delta' class spacecraft.
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic conducts launches from Spaceport America using the spaceplane SpaceShipTwo.
Spaceport America has added a viewing area for visitors to watch Virgin Galactic flights since the 2021 launches.
Virgin Galactic is operating its suborbital VSS Unity spaceplane for private astronaut flights and is developing a new 'Delta-class' vehicle.
Virgin Galactic plans to shift to a quarterly flight cadence and halt Unity flights entirely by mid-2024.
Virgin Galactic notified the Federal Aviation Administration of the incident on 2024-01-31.
Virgin Galactic is producing next-generation Delta-class ships and expects testing to start next year and commercial service to begin in 2026.
Virgin Galactic completed its first spaceflight of 2024 and its 11th mission to date.
The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic, manufactures the SpaceShipTwo vehicle.
Virgin Galactic is producing next-generation Delta-class ships with testing expected to start next year and commercial service planned for 2026.