Virgin Galactic banks $2 million in quarterly revenue after first commercial spaceflight

Virgin Galactic reported second-quarter losses connected Tuesday that were somewhat wider the year-ago period, arsenic the abstraction tourism institution pushes connected toward flying customers connected monthly flights aft launching commercialized service.

For the 4th ended June 30, Virgin Galactic posted a nett nonaccomplishment of $134.4 million, oregon 46 cents a share, compared with a nonaccomplishment of $110.7 million, oregon 43 cents a share, successful the aforesaid play a twelvemonth earlier.

The institution brought successful gross of $1.9 cardinal during the 4th – up from $357,000 successful the play a twelvemonth anterior – generated by "commercial spaceflight and rank fees related to aboriginal astronauts."

Virgin Galactic flew 2 spaceflights during the 2nd quarter: Its final trial spaceflight and its first commercialized spaceflight, the second a long-awaited measurement to bring its work to market. It expects to alert its 2nd commercialized spaceflight connected Aug. 10.

Virgin Galactic banal slipped astir 3% successful after-hours trading from its adjacent astatine $4.14 a share. The banal is up 19% year-to-date.

Virgin Galactic had currency and securities totaling $980 cardinal astatine the extremity of the quarter, up from astir $874 cardinal astatine the extremity of the archetypal quarter. That summation came arsenic Virgin Galactic brought successful funds done "at the market" sales of communal stock.

"Our fiscal presumption remains strong, and we stay focused connected scaling the concern and delivering our Delta Class spaceships for commercialized work successful 2026," Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier said successful a statement.

The institution has been spending heavy to grow its fleet beyond the existent sole VSS Unity spacecraft. Virgin Galactic is processing its Delta-class spacecraft to alert astatine an improved play rate, noting the nett nonaccomplishment for the 2nd 4th was "primarily driven by an summation successful probe and improvement expenses related to the improvement of the aboriginal fleet."