Amid Cost Cuts, Virgin Galactic Details Spaceplane Improvements

Virgin Galactic spaceplane

Systems and display upgrades are targeted at producing consistent flight profiles to suborbital space.

Credit: Virgin Galactic
As Virgin Galactic adjusts to a slower flight tempo to focus resources on development of the next-generation Delta-class spaceplane, the company has provided new details about system and display upgrades successfully validated on the first series of commercial spaceflights. The improvements to the...

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