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Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who had previously founded the Virgin Group and the Virgin Atlantic airline, and who had a long personal history of balloon and surface record-breaking activities. As part of Branson's promotion of the firm, he has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to ...
Spirit of Mojave, previously Cosmic Girl is a Boeing 747-400 aircraft. A former passenger airliner operated by Virgin Atlantic, it was purchased by Virgin Galactic in 2015 to be used as the first stage launch platform (or mothership launch pad) for the air launch stage of the smallsat orbital launch vehicle, the LauncherOne.
The Spaceship Co., manufacturer of Virgin Galactic's vehicles, was announced as a partner for flight tests in Mojave, California. [9] Flight tests were delayed again for 2019 due to challenging aerodynamics and further engine change; from the 3,500 pounds-force (16,000 N) J85-21 to the 4,300 lbf (19 kN) J85-15. [9]
A U.S. venture-capital firm recently led a round of seed investment for Hermeus Corp., a new startup looking to develop a hypersonic aircraft.Hermeus also announced its advisory board in a ...
Investing.com – Virgin Galactic's space-tourism efforts have been getting a lot of news coverage, but it is the company's plans for hypersonic point-to-point air travel that has Morgan Stanley ...
Although not a Virgin Galactic launcher, SpaceShipOne was the direct predecessor of the Virgin Galactic vehicles, and served to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept. SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (900 m/s), using a hybrid rocket ...
Virgin Galactic rolled out its newest spaceship Tuesday as the company looks to resume test flights in the coming months at its headquarters in the New Mexico desert. Company officials said it ...
Virgin Galactic bought out Scaled Composites' interest in TSC in 2012, and TSC became a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin Galactic. [ 35 ] The launch customer of SpaceShipTwo was Virgin Galactic, who as of 2005 [update] had publicly announced they had ordered five vehicles, [ 36 ] [ 37 ] but only three had been ordered by 2015. [ 38 ]