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  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    Space industry
    The dead cat launch

    If a rocket enters space and nobody cares, does it make a sound?

  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Virgin Galactic set to start commercial space flights this month

    Richard Branson’s company has endured numerous delays on the path to getting operations under way

    Richard Branson
  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    News in-depthSpecial purpose acquisition companies
    Borrowed money funded share purchases by ‘Spac king’ Palihapitiya

    Blank-cheque company promoter was lent $200mn for marquee deals while touting ‘skin in the game’

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Spac promoter Chamath Palihapitiya steps down as Virgin Galactic chair

    Prolific backer of blank cheque companies departs board of Richard Branson’s space travel venture

    Chamath Palihapitiya
  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    Virgin Galactic returns to planet earth

    What’s a $425m convert between friends eh?

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    Sinead O'Sullivan
    Privatising astronauts means more will boldly go where few went before

    Increased access to the coveted title signals the space sector’s tilt towards a largely commercial endeavour

    Companies like Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have opened up space travel to private astronauts
  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    US regulator grounds Virgin Galactic fleet over Branson space flight anomaly

    FAA began probe after learning spacecraft veered out of designated airspace during founder’s July launch

    Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Unity and mother ship
  • Monday, 23 August, 2021
    Space industry
    Virgin Orbit brings Boeing on board for $3.2bn Spac deal

    Richard Branson’s reusable launch venture is aiming for Nasdaq listing

    Virgin Orbit Cosmic Girl launch
  • Friday, 13 August, 2021
    Virgin Group Ltd
    Branson’s Virgin Group takes in $1bn from Galactic share sales

    Space travel company’s market value has almost trebled since 2019 listing through a Spac

  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    Space industry
    Fiercest billionaire space race is Bezos vs Musk

    Richard Branson is not Blue Origin’s main rival because SpaceX remains streets ahead

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    Interview
    Virgin Galactic plans to take a tourist to space every day, says chief

    Sir Richard Branson’s private space company looks to capitalise on its founder’s successful test flight

    Sir Richard Branson and other Unity 22 crew members at zero gravity, viewed as they flew into space aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel
  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Delta variant spreads in Europe, Schwab on EU tech regulation

    Economists worry the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant could undermine the EU recovery

  • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
    Richard Branson touches the edge of space

    Entrepreneur’s ride to zero gravity is a milestone for his Virgin Galactic venture

    Richard Branson rides aboard the Virgin Galactic during its voyage to suborbital space
  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Space industry
    Branson and Bezos in space: how their rocket ships compare

    Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder plans to kickstart space tourism industry with mission on Sunday

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Lex
    Virgin Galactic: Blue Origin race raises publicity and shares Premium content

    It makes sense for the group to raise additional capital for itself when the share price is riding high

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pictured in 2017
  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Space industry
    Richard Branson poised to beat Jeff Bezos into space

    Virgin Galactic brings forward founder’s first trip to nine days before rival’s Blue Origin mission

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    Virgin Galactic licence starts countdown to billionaire space race

    Richard Branson gets go-ahead from regulators as he vies with Jeff Bezos to take passengers to space

  • Saturday, 22 May, 2021
    Space industry
    Virgin Galactic completes flight in step towards space tourism

    Richard Branson’s company had suffered a series of delays as it competes with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    Far from being out of this world, Musk’s space strategy is classic Silicon Valley

    The mystique around going into orbit obscures mundane reasons for success and failure in the industry

    Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    SPAC-man edges out of the space-flight SPAC space

    One $98m step for Chamath Palihapitiya, one giant question for the market.

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Why every dealmaker wants to launch a Spac Premium content

    The investment product can generate a profit like nowhere else on Wall Street. DD digs into ‘the great 2020 money grab’

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Who wants to be a Spac millionaire? Premium content

    Putting a dollar figure on the elusive concept of the so-called promote

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    Virgin Group Ltd
    Virgin relinquishes control of Galactic space business

    Funds from $366m sell-off likely to shore up other branches of Sir Richard Branson’s group

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Space jam: can Branson’s Galactic venture save his Virgin empire? Premium content

    In the midst of a pandemic, anyone who owns aviation, hospitality or cruise ship businesses is fighting for survival

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    LexRichard Branson
    Virgin Galactic/Atlantic: flight of fancy Premium content

    Investors see Branson’s space tourism business as more than pie in the sky

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