The company described the flight as a “captive carry” test, in which the launch vehicle and spacecraft are held together. As well as ensuring a safe flight, engineers used the event as a real-world ...

The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform ...

(The Hill) — Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date.

WEST DOT OR VIRGIN GALACTIC IS SET TO RETURN TO SPACEPORT AMERICA FOR MORE COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS. THE COMPANY SAYS THEIR NEW DELTA CLASS SPACECRAFT AND UPGRADED MOTHERSHIP, NAMED THE VMS EVE, WILL START ...

Nearly two years since Virgin Galactic's last space flight, the company will once again take regular citizens up into space -- regular citizens who have an extra $750,000, that is. It began accepting ...

The impressive flight cadence of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane won't last much longer. Unity flew for the sixth time in as many months last week, carrying two research scientists and another ...

Virgin Galactic is building a space tourism business. It has proven the concept and is actually running space tourism flights, but it is nowhere near profitable. Management is still saying that the ...

In space, no one can hear a pin drop. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic was forced to ground its rocket after a part fell off during its first space tourism flight of 2024. The “alignment pin detached ...