Aerospace Manufacturing

Virgin Galactic completes new spaceship factory in Arizona

Virgin Galactic has announced the completion of its new manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona, where final assembly of its next-generation Delta spaceships is scheduled to take place starting in 2025.

12th July 2024

First fully-crewed Virgin Galactic spaceflight gets ready for launch

The next rocket-powered test flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity will take place from 11^th July, pending weather and technical checks.

7th July 2021

Virgin Galactic completes first spaceflight from New Mexico

Virgin Galactic has completed its third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico.

25th May 2021

Virgin Galactic unveils new spaceship for its growing fleet

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the company’s first SpaceShip III in its growing fleet, VSS Imagine.

1st April 2021

New flight window set for VSS Unity rocket-powered flight

The flight window will open on February 13 with opportunities to fly throughout February, pending good weather conditions and technical readiness. The test flight will be crewed by two pilots and will carry research payloads as part of the NASA Flight Opportunities program.

2nd February 2021

Virgin Galactic partners with Under Armour to unveil spacesuits

Virgin Galactic today unveiled the spacesuits its pilots will wear as they fly private astronauts on life changing journeys to space.

4th December 2020

New pilots join Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic has announced the appointment of two new pilots into its Pilot Corps, bringing the total number of pilots to eight.

27th October 2020

Virgin Galactic reveals Mach 3 commercial aircraft plan

Virgin Galactic has revealed the first stage design scope for the build of its high speed aircraft design.

5th August 2020

Virgin Galactic reveals spacecraft cabin interiors

Virgin Galactic has revealed the cabin interior of its first SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity.

29th July 2020

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity makes first flight from Spaceport America

Virgin Galactic has announced the successful completion of its first SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America.

4th May 2020

Virgin Galactic welcomes VSS Unity to Spaceport America, New Mexico

Virgin Galactic has successfully completed another vital step on its path to commercial service, relocating SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, to its commercial headquarters at Spaceport America’s Gateway to Space building.

24th February 2020

Virgin Galactic reaches key production milestone

Virgin Galactic has reached the ‘weight on wheels’ milestone in the build of its second commercial spaceship. In this milestone, all major structural elements of the vehicle were assembled, and the vehicle deployed its main landing gear and carried its own weight for the first time.

13th January 2020

Watch Virgin Galactic launch VSS Unity to the edge of space

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity reached the edge of space on 13th December 2018. Its highest altitude was 82.72km. This surpassed the US Government definition of space at 80km. SpaceShipTwo took off in the morning from California’s Mojave air and space port, about 145km north of Los Angeles.

18th December 2018

Branson welcomes home Virgin Galactic’s historic first spaceflight

Today, Virgin Galactic conducted its fourth powered test flight and first space flight of its commercial SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity.

14th December 2018

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