Virgin Galactics

SPCE

Consumer Discretionary

Defense

Meme

+1

Country

US

Industry

Industrials

Market Cap

Micro Cap

Num. Employees

805

IPO Date

Sep 18, 2017

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Country

US

Industry

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Consumer Discretionary

Defense

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Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc is a US-based company operating in Aerospace & Defense industry. The company is headquartered in Tustin, California and currently employs 805 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-09-18. 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 firm has developed a portfolio of proprietary technologies that are embodied in the specialized vehicles that it has created to enable commercial spaceflight. These technologies include carrier aircraft, the mothership; its spaceships; its hybrid rocket motor, and its safety systems. Its Carrier Aircraft-The Mothership is a twin-fuselage, custom-built aircraft designed to carry spaceships up to an altitude of approximately 45,000 feet, where the spaceship is released for its flight into space. Its Virgin Galactic spaceships are reusable with the capacity to carry pilots and private astronauts, research experiments and researchers.