Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity lands at Spaceport America Oct. 6 at the end of the Galactic 04 mission. Credit: Spaceport America By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 6 October 2023 WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic continued its monthly cadence of commercial suborbital spaceflights Oct. 6, carrying three customers that included the
Rocket Lab will use the former headquarters of Virgin Orbit for producing Rutherford and Archimedes engines. Credit: Rocket Lab/Austin Adams By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 5 October 2023 LONG BEACH, Calif. — Rocket Lab has opened a new engine development center in a building that, six months earlier, was
By Daniel Boffey, Published by The Guardian, 21 September 2023 Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit First place is “nice but it’s not necessary”, says Stefan Gustafsson, a senior official at the Sweden Space Corporation
Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane during the Galactic 03 flight Sept. 8. Credit: Virgin Galactic By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 8 September 2023 WASHINGTON — Operating under a veil of secrecy reminiscent of a national security launch, Virgin Galactic performed its third commercial suborbital spaceflight Sept. 8 with
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, August 14 2023 WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab says a Virgin Orbit facility it acquired at a bankruptcy auction in May will allow the company to scale up production of its Neutron rocket in development. Rocket Lab placed a winning bid of $16.1 million for
Anastatia (Ana) Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff, boarded the VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space By Thomas Mackintosh, Published by the BBC, 10 August, 2023 Virgin Galactic has taken a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother to the edge of space on its
By Jonathan Amos, Published by BBC News, 30 July 2023 It's taken just shy of 20 years but Sir Richard Branson has finally begun commercial operations with his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, Unity. The vehicle soared high over the New Mexico desert on Thursday to enable three Italians to conduct
By Brady Knox, Published by Washington Examiner, 16 June 2023 The commercial space flight company Virgin Galactic is set to begin commercial space flights in June, with tickets costing $450,000. The flights come shortly after the company broke its two-year hiatus with a final pre-commercial test flight in May. The
