Virgin Galactic's envisioned Delta class spacecraft
VG's envisioned Delta class spacecraft will, the company maintains, slow its cash burn with a larger passenger capacity and less need for maintenance. However, the Delta is not expected to enter commercial service until 2026. Source: Virgin Galactic

Stuff you need to know, 11.8.23

“Virgin Galactic lays off staff as it focuses on next-generation suborbital vehicle”
by Jeff Foust, SpaceNews
November 7, 2023

Michael Colglazier, chief executive of Virgin Galactic, said the layoffs and other reductions in expenses are intended to conserve the company’s funding so it can focus on development of the Delta vehicles, which are intended to fly more frequently and at a lower cost than its existing SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle, VSS Unity.

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Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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