Virgin Galactic Eyes New Mothership

passengers on virgin galactic suborbital space flight aug 2023

Passengers onboard the Galactic 02 mission last summer.

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Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic will shift its engineers toward designing its next family of motherships after the bulk of work on designing its future passenger-carrying Delta-class ships is done, possibly this summer, with the new mothership entering service in 2028. The unnamed...
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Based in Washington, Michael Bruno is Aviation Week Network’s Executive Editor for Business. He oversees coverage of aviation, aerospace and defense businesses, supply chains and related issues.

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