Tag: Virgin

Virgin Galactic to launch 7th commercial spaceflight on June 8

Virgin Galactic will fly again next month, if all goes according to plan. The company announced on Wednesday (May 1) that it’s targeting June 8 for its seventh commercial spaceflight, a suborbital jaunt called, fittingly enough, Galactic 07. It will be Virgin Galactic‘s second spaceflight of the year, after the Galactic 06 mission on Jan. […]

Why Virgin Galactic Stock Just Crashed 16.5%

Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) stock tumbled 16.5% through 10:40 a.m. ET Friday morning on what should have been ho-hum news. This morning, the company filed its regularly scheduled “notice of annual meeting of stockholders” (to be held on June 12). On the agenda: electing directors, approving an auditor, and setting executive salaries. Oh, and one […]

Virgin Galactic Countersues Boeing, Alleging ‘Shoddy Work’

Last month, Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences sued Virgin Galactic, accusing Richard Branson’s space venture of skipping on bills and holding onto trade secrets. Now, Virgin has returned fire. The company last week countersued Boeing and Aurora, accusing the struggling aerospace company of “shoddy and incomplete work.” According to Reuters, Virgin Galactic said […]

Boeing Sues Virgin Galactic Over Stalled Mothership Work

Boeing is dealing with a lot of problems at the moment but that doesn’t mean the aerospace company is going to let its partners get away with allegedly hoarding trade secrets and stiffing it on the bill. According to Space News, Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences have filed suit against Virgin Galactic, Richard […]

Episode 100 — Riding to Space on Virgin Galactic

On Episode 100 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod welcome back Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute to share what it’s like to fly on a private spaceplane. Alan, a planetary scientist and principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond, launched on a suborbital spaceflight in November […]