Virgin Galactic

American spaceflight company

The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is a retired air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It was manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.

LauncherOne was a two-stage orbital launch vehicle developed and flown by Virgin Orbit that had operational flights from 2021 to 2023, after being in development from 2007 to 2020. It was an air-launched rocket, designed to carry smallsat payloads of up to into Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), following air launch from a carrier aircraft at high altitude. The rocket was carried to the upper atmosphere on a modified Boeing 747-400, named Cosmic Girl, and released over ocean. Initial work on the program was done by Virgin Galactic, another Virgin Group subsidiary, before a separate entity — Virgin O

private launcher services provider

spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States

quadjet from Scaled Composites

facility located in Mojave, California

spacecraft

American commercial sub-orbitable space ship

incident involving the VSS Enterprise

Boeing 747 aircraft operated by Stratolaunch

Billionaire space rivalry