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Virgin Group

US
commercialFounded 1972
New York, New York, United States
www.virgin.com
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Virgin Orbit has raised $55,000,000 in debt since November from Virgin Investments Limited, the investment arm of Virgin Group.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/7/2023Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure

Virgin Orbit has since raised $45,000,000 in two separate tranches from Virgin Group and Virgin Group’s investment arm.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL1/12/2023Virgin Orbit blames launch failure on upper stage anomaly

Virgin Orbit raised $25,000,000 from Virgin Group in early 2022-11-01 and an additional $20,000,000 from Virgin Investments Limited on 2022-12-20.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL1/9/2023First Virgin Orbit U.K. launch fails

Virgin Orbit raised $25,000,000 from Virgin Group earlier in November 2022.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL12/8/2022Virgin Orbit delays first U.K. launch

Virgin Orbit raised $25,000,000 in new funding from Virgin Group on 2022-11-04.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL11/8/2022Virgin Orbit says U.K launch licensing taking longer than expected

Virgin Group committed to purchasing supersonic jets under development by Boom Supersonic with The Spaceship Company, a subsidiary of Virgin Galactic, working with Boom on aircraft design.

ORG RELATIONSHIP10/8/2019Boeing to invest in Virgin Galactic

Virgin Group had an agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia in October 2017 that would have resulted in a $1,000,000,000 investment in Virgin’s space companies, and Richard Branson later terminated that deal in reaction to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

ORG RELATIONSHIP12/13/2018Branson looks ahead to beginning commercial SpaceShipTwo flights