Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic are pleased to announce Virgin Orbit, a new commercial space company, and the appointment of Dan Hart as the first President of the newly created company.

Virgin reports a loss of 57 cents per share against the consensus estimate of a 52-cent loss. The company posted revenues of $392,000 against the $1.16-million Street estimate. The market’s back, and ...

Satellite launch firm Virgin Orbit Holdings is calling it quits, and will lay off most of its workforce and wind down plants and testing facilities in Long Beach and the Mojave desert. The Long ...

Virgin Orbit, a satellite launch startup under Branson’s Virgin Group, yesterday (March 15) furloughed nearly all of its employees and told them at an all-hands meeting the company will cease ...

HVS1, which may be an old metal-poor hypervelocity star of galactic center origin. The finding, based on the data from the ...

Virgin Orbit, the low Earth orbit small-payload launch company that was spun out of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, has filed for bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

Update: The flight, launch, and glide were all successful and the crew is back Earthside. 🙌 Touchdown, VSS Unity! Our crew and spaceship are back on Earth after landing smoothly at Spaceport America, ...

HELSINKI — China’s Galactic Energy conducted its third Ceres-1 solid rocket sea launch Thursday, successfully sending six satellites into orbit. The Ceres-1 lifted off from a transport erector ...

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