Sir Richard Branson's firm, which completed its first sub-orbital test flight in 2018, said it had received almost 8,000 registrations of interest for future commercial flights.
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The news comes as Virgin Galactic's latest company results show a net loss of $73m (£55.6m) for the last quarter.
On Wednesday, the California-based company said it would begin taking $1,000 refundable deposits as it prepares to release the next batch of tickets to the general public.
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SpaceX wins the $117 million launch contract to explore Psyche’s heavy metal asteroid
The Psyche mission will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, which will launch from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Located between Mars and Jupiter, the Psyche asteroid is made of the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet and represents a fragment of one of the earliest building blocks of our solar system.
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"With the transition into this new mission phase, we are one big step closer to uncovering the secrets of Psyche, a giant mysterious metallic asteroid, and that means the world to us," said principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University in Tempe, in a statement when NASA announced that it was approving the mission.
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Mae Jemison teaches lessons from time as astronaut, aims high for human interstellar space travel
Jemison, former NASA astronaut and the first woman of color in the world to go into space, shared how her personal experiences of finding confidence and a place at the table shaped the work she does today—as well as her visions for human interstellar space travel.
"And that's the person I grew up to be," she said. "That's how I thought of the world—that I would be able to participate."
Participating, however, wasn't all smooth sailing. Jemison told the audience that in order to use her skills, experiences and authority to "make things happen," she had to be confident and empowered.
Daily Inter Lake - Local News, Whitefish inventors develop new kind of rocket engine
Aaron Davis, founder and chief executive officer of Whitefish-based Mountain Aerospace Research Solutions, shows off the first Fenris rocket engine that he says will make getting into space cheaper and safer. The engine was created on a 3D metal printer, contains no moving parts and can be reusable. It was test fired on July 26, 2019, at a test facility in California�s Mojave Desert. (Photo courtesy Doug Jorgensen, for Mountain Aerospace Research Solutions)
This prototype Fenris engine was test-fired on July 26, 2019, at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. The successful test demonstrated beyond a doubt that the engine pulled in plenty of oxygen from the surrounding air to sustain combustion. (Photo courtesy Doug Jorgensen for Mountain Aerospace Research Solutions)
New 'detonation' engine could revolutionise space travel, but there's a problem
Engineers have developed a new kind of engine that could make rockets much easier to build – but it's very unstable.
In more than half a century since humans first walked on the moon, little has changed in the area of space propulsion. Existing rocket engines – such as the ones that brought NASA's Space Shuttle into orbit – required more than 1.5m kg of chemical fuel, which is 15 times heavier than a blue whale.
Now, however, researchers from the University of Washington have designed a new rocket engine concept that could potentially bring propulsion into the 21st century. Writing in Physical Review E , they said this new engine – referred to as a rotating detonation engine – would not only make rockets more fuel-efficient, but also more lightweight and less complicated to construct.
Virgin Galactic Stock Skyrockets As Investors Buy Into The Billionaire Space Race
Topline: Virgin Galactic Holdings (SPCE) stock has continued to rally in recent weeks, gaining almost 200% this year alone as investors flock to buy shares of the space tourism company, which is competing with the likes of Elon Musk's Space X and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.
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Big numbers: UBS estimates that the commercial space travel business will become a $3 billion industry by 2030. Virgin Galactic has some 600 reservations and $80 million in deposits for flights, which are priced at $250,000 per ticket.
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Wall Street Week Virgin Galactic $SPCE: -27% Tesla $TSLA: -26% Apple $AAPL: -13% Dow: -12% Oil: -12% S&P 500: -11%… https://t.co/Bh5APW9sEa charliebilello (from New York, NY) Fri Feb 28 21:39:00 +0000 2020
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Billionaire Richard Branson's wealth is falling with Virgin Galactic's stock https://t.co/ocZKIzKDhi business (from New York and the World) Sun Mar 01 00:43:06 +0000 2020
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