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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.
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 ...
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 had publicly announced they had ordered five vehicles, [36] [37] but only three had been ordered by 2015. [38]
On the bottom line, Virgin Galactic lost $72.7 million -- $2.66 per share -- despite growing its share count dramatically, and spreading its losses out among 49% more shares than it had a year ago.
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 ...
In an announcement by Virgin Galactic on Wednesday, the company said just under 40% of the layoffs will be people working in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic lays off 185 employees; will pause flights ...
Galactic 03 Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic: Galactic 03: Virgin Galactic: Suborbital Crewed spaceflight: 8 September 15:35: Successful Apogee: 88.6 km (55.1 mi). 27 September 21:10 [179] UGM-133 Trident II: DASO-32: USS Louisiana, Western Range: United States Navy: United States Navy: Suborbital Missile test: 27 September: Successful 6 ...