VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS INC (SPCE)

Company Profile

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is an aerospace and space travel company, which engages in the manufacture of advanced air and space vehicles, and the provision of spaceflight services for private individuals and researchers. The company is headquartered in Tustin, California and currently employs 1,166 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-09-18. The Company’s operations include design and development, manufacturing, ground and flight testing, and post-flight maintenance of its spaceflight system vehicles. The firm 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.

Company Info

VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS INC

1700 Flight Way

Tustin CALIFORNIA 88011

P: 15754242100

CEO: Michael Colglazier

Employees: 1166

Website: https://www.virgingalactic.com/