The American company Virgin Galactic has postponed the start of commercial suborbital flights to the end of 2022. This was reported by the press service of the organization.
It is noted that the company needs to finalize the equipment, as well as conduct additional tests.
– The revision program starts one month later than expected, and the start of commercial services is now expected in the fourth quarter of 2022, – reads the text of the message of the company.
At the same time, Virgin Galactic will conduct a test flight of the Unity 23 spacecraft with the Italian Air Force.
Recall, as the website kp.ru wrote, on July 11, 2021, billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson went into space on the first tourist ship of his own company VSS Unity. In addition to the businessman himself, top managers of the company went into space: Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennett and Vice President Sirisha Bundla.
