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 ...

On Monday, Virgin Galactic announced that it will conduct its next commercial spaceflight, Galactic 03, as early as September 8. This will be the company’s third commercial spaceflight, and it will ...

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Virgin Galactic flew four tourists to the edge of space and back aboard its spaceplane, marking the second flight this year, the Richard Branson-founded company said on Saturday. The Galactic 07 ...

This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).

Virgin Galactic is cutting costs and reducing staff by 18% as it looks to scale production of its next-gen line of suborbital spaceplanes. In a memo to staff sent Tuesday, Virgin Galactic CEO Michael ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...

Correction, Oct. 16, 2024: This story originally stated a team from Virgin Galactic traveled to an altitude of about 53 miles and crossed the Kármán line. That has been clarified, as the team did not ...

Now in development, the Delta class spaceplane will pack more passengers, fly four times as often as its predecessor, and possibly be profitable. Reading time 4 minutes After a few short trips to the ...