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Virgin Galactic's delay of SpaceShipTwo test flights will postpone flights of space tourists to 2022.
Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit are separate entities within the Virgin Group.
Sir Richard Branson is the Founder of Virgin Galactic.
Virgin Galactic received a thousand love messages from followers to take on board for their test flight.
Virgin Galactic went public in 2019 by merging with Social Capital Hedosophia.
Virgin Galactic's team conducted a root cause analysis, completed corrective work, and carried out extensive ground testing following the 2020-12-12 engine shutdown.
Virgin Galactic planned a 2020-12-12 test flight during which SpaceShipTwo was released from the WhiteKnightTwo aircraft and its hybrid rocket motor ignited but almost immediately shut down.
At the time of the November 2020 earnings call, Virgin Galactic expected to fly the second and third flights in the first quarter of 2021, with the first flight scheduled for November 2020.
Virgin Galactic will launch its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane in mid-February 2021.
The LauncherOne development program dates back to July 2012 when Virgin Galactic announced its intent to develop a small launch vehicle to complement SpaceShipTwo.
Virgin Galactic spun out the LauncherOne project into a separate company, Virgin Orbit, in 2017.
Virgin Galactic aborted a 2020-12-12 test flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle from Spaceport America after a computer system lost connection as the vehicle ignited its engine and the vehicle glided to a safe landing back at the spaceport.
Virgin Galactic completed post-flight inspections and a root cause analysis of the 2020-12-12 aborted flight, defined corrective actions, and has work already underway to address the issue.
Virgin Orbit is a sister company to Virgin Galactic and intends to deploy satellites using rockets released from under the wing of a Boeing 747 airliner.
Virgin Galactic planned a second flight in the first quarter of 2021 to carry four company employees and two pilots to test the cabin interior and the spaceflight experience.
NASA awarded VCLS contracts in the original 2015 program to Firefly Space Systems, Rocket Lab, and Virgin Galactic.
The 2020-12-12 flight was intended to be the first of three flights Virgin Galactic planned to perform before beginning commercial operations.
Virgin Galactic did not provide its own livestream of the 2020-12-12 flight and restricted access at Spaceport America to essential personnel because of the pandemic.
Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo aircraft carrying the SpaceShipTwo vehicle named VSS Unity took off from Spaceport America at 10:24 a.m. Eastern on 2020-12-12.
Virgin Galactic planned a third flight as soon as late in the first quarter of 2021 with company founder Richard Branson on board.