Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is an aerospace and space travel company, which offers access to space for private individuals, researchers and government agencies. The Company’s operations include design and development, manufacturing, ground and flight testing, and post-flight maintenance of its spaceflight system vehicles. The Company has developed a portfolio of proprietary technologies embodied in specialized assets, including the mothership, spaceship, hybrid rocket motor and Spaceport America. The mothership is a twin-fuselage, custom-built aircraft designed to carry its spaceships up to an altitude of approximately 45,000 feet, where the spaceship is released for its flight into space. The spaceship is a vehicle with the capacity to carry pilots and private astronauts, research experiments and researchers. Its spaceships are powered by a hybrid rocket propulsion system that propels them on a trajectory into space.
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