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Virgin Galactic Ltd Products   
120 Campden Hill Rd
London,  UK  W87AR
United Kingdom
Telephone: (44 ) 2073-132000
URL: http://www.virgingalactic.com
Email: info@virgingalactic.com

Virgin Galactic Limited is a Virgin Group company that is developing a fleet of commercial sub-orbital spaceships. The firm will provide consumers with space travel services. The company is known for its SpaceShipOne test vehicle, which won the Ansari X Prize in 2004. The private space travel vehicle now is on display at the Smithsonian Museum. Virgin Galactic, in alliance with Scaled Composites, is developing an updated version of the SpaceShipOne. Testing of Virgin SpaceShip Enterprise (VSS Enterprise) will begin in 2007. Commercial flights will begin in 2009. Flights will reach an altitude of 360,000 feet. Initially, operations will be based at the Mojave Spaceport in California. Virgin Galactic holds exclusive rights to Scaled Composites' spacecraft vehicle materials.

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