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 plans Galactic 06 for January 2024 to allow time for routine, planned annual vehicle inspections.
Virgin Galactic operates the VMS Eve mothership aircraft and the SpaceShipTwo Unity spaceplane to provide suborbital spaceflights for private astronaut customers from Spaceport America.
Virgin Galactic completed its fifth successful human space mission in five months with Galactic 04.
The 2023-10-06 flight was the fourth flight for VSS Unity since Virgin Galactic started commercial service in late 2023-06-01.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo vehicle VSS Unity took off from Spaceport America attached to its VMS Eve mothership at 11:28 a.m. Eastern on 2023-10-06.
Treavor Beattie is a British advertising executive and film producer who accompanied Richard Branson to a SpaceShipOne flight in 2004 and signed up for a Virgin Galactic flight on the spot.
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. completed its fifth successful human space mission in five months on 2023-10-05 with the mission named Galactic 04.
Virgin Orbit established the Long Beach facility when it was still a division of Virgin Galactic.
Timothy Nash flew to the edge of space on September 8 in Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft, VSS Unity.
Virgin Galactic began operating tourist flights in earnest in the summer of 2023.
Virgin Galactic's practice of not disclosing customer names is a departure from traditional spaceflight practices.
Virgin Galactic plans to replace the astronaut trainer with a fourth customer next year to increase revenue.
Virgin Galactic has about 800 ticket purchasers who have been waiting for their flights for more than 15 years in some cases.
Virgin Galactic plans to conduct monthly flights of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle.
Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic, stated that the expected revenue per flight is about $600,000.
The next Virgin Galactic flight is tentatively scheduled for early October.
Virgin Galactic is currently flying only once a month, which is unlikely to change until its new Delta class of suborbital spaceplanes enter service around 2026.
Virgin Galactic completed the company’s second private astronaut flight, Galactic 03, on 2023-09-08 at 8:34 a.m.
Virgin Galactic reported losses of $134.4 million in the second quarter of 2023.
Virgin Galactic named the company personnel involved in Galactic 03 in advance but not the individual customers.