VSS Unity completed a successful glide flight today above @Spaceport_NM. Pilots, ground crew, and Mission Control all running live operations, building the rhythm our new spaceship program demands → https://t.co/eCNl1tR5fo
Welcoming Operation Period to our 2027 spaceflight manifest. This will be the first spaceflight ever dedicated to studying menstruation in microgravity, investigating how space travel affects menstrual physiology, with implications for astronaut health and reproductive medicine on Earth. This is what inclusive-by-design research looks like → https://t.co/orze0lpiEf
CEO Michael Colglazier: We're proud of our progress and we’re moving with momentum. Factory tours are now open for founding astronauts, prospective customers, and guests. Next up: a SpaceShip christening and journey to @Spaceport_NM. Just wait until you see this ship with its new livery 🚀
CFO Doug Ahrens: We’ve managed the financial strength of the company. We ended Q1 with $251M in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. We expect free cash flow to improve modestly through Q3 and Q4 2026, with the start of spaceflight revenue in Q4. In January 2027, we’re planning an initial flight rate of 4x per month, growing to 8 flights per month by Q2. We expect modest quarterly positive cash flow within 2027.
Smarter testing. Faster path to flight. Our investment in off-ship testing infrastructure is letting our new SpaceShips move from structural assembly through ground testing and into flight test in a fraction of the time. Learn more on this episode of We Build SpaceShips.
Virgin Galactic has reached a new production milestone, successfully towing its latest SpaceShip from the assembly hangar to the test and launch hangar. The vehicle will undergo final systems integration and ground testing. The next-generation SpaceShips are being built at our SpaceShip factory in Mesa, Arizona.
WATCH NOW: @LifeAtPurdue and @virgingalactic are announcing the last two crew members on Purdue 1, the historic all-Boilermaker suborbital flight set to launch next year.
If you can't watch in person, don't miss the livestream here: https://t.co/noU9iqQIlA