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.
Identity changes, mergers, acquisitions, splits, and transferred business lines.
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Virgin Orbit, an air-launched small-satellite launch provider (LauncherOne rocket, "Cosmic Girl" carrier 747), was spun off from Virgin Galactic in 2017.