Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it's postponing a pivotal crewed spaceflight that it planned to launch in mid-November due to new COVID-19 restrictions in New Mexico. The company originally ...

Virgin Galactic’s spaceline president. “The test flights of Delta will be much more like regression testing, where we are incrementally expanding how Delta flies, but doing so by comparing it ...

(Bloomberg) -- Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. plans to fly the first flight of its upgraded spaceplane in the US during the summer of 2026, which would bring an end to a nearly two-year hiatus of ...

“Virgin Galactic test pilots broke Mach 2 this morning, as VSS Unity took her third rocket-powered supersonic outing in less than four months,” noted Virgin Galatic in a post flight release.

The flight to and from space lasts about two hours, just three to five minutes of which is spent floating almost 90km above the surface of the Earth. The Virgin Galactic carrier aircraft ...

The general idea revolves around launching the vehicle into space from its departure point, before re-entering and arriving at the destination site for landing – all in a fraction of the time it ...