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    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Virgin Group Ltd
      US rail operator claims Virgin Group faced ‘brand catastrophe’ during pandemic

      Value of UK brand at centre of dispute as Sir Richard Branson’s company takes legal action against Brightline

      A Brightline passenger train on a platform in West Palm Beach, Florida
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Virgin Orbit
      Branson and creditors of Virgin Orbit raise $36mn from fire sale

      Rivals Rocket Lab and Stratolaunch acquire assets of failed rocket company

      Virgin Orbit’s ‘Cosmic Girl’ prepares for take-off from Cornwall with its underwing rocket payload
    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Satellites
      Mis-steps that brought Virgin Orbit crashing back to earth

      Branson vehicle teeters after series of flawed decisions and a failed launch lead to painful denouement

      A model of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket
    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Virgin Orbit
      Virgin Orbit shares plunge after announcing ‘ceased operations’

      Richard Branson’s rocket company to axe 85% of staff as it struggles to secure rescue funding

      A replica of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket  at Newquay Airport
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Satellites
      Virgin Orbit pledges to return for new UK satellite launch

      Richard Branson’s company wants to try again later this year after failed mission from Cornwall

      Virgin Orbit’s home base at the Mojave air and space port in California
    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      ReviewTelevision
      Branson — the story of a man with his own island and spaceship

      This HBO/Sky series follows a wealth of recent documentaries and dramatisations about billionaire entrepreneurs

      Photograph of Richard Branson, looking serious, with a grey top and sitting in a living room with large windows
    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      Virgin Galactic returns to planet earth

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

    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd
      Branson gives Virgin Atlantic cash injection as travel outlook darkens

      Tycoon’s Virgin Group and Delta Air Lines pump in £400m

      A workers assists a traveler at a Virgin Atlantic Airways check-in counter at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York
    • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
      Travel
      Short cuts: Branson’s other island and time for contemplation

      Moskito Island in the Caribbean offers a range of ‘estates’ and English Heritage calls for quiet at its holiest buildings

      Moskito Island
    • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
      Andrew Hill
      ‘CEO speak’ on show in the billionaire space race

      Business leaders’ words are increasingly sanitised but insights occasionally slip through

      Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin crew and passengers
    • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
      Virgin Galactic
      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

    • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
      Beach holidays
      Necker Island — inside Richard Branson’s Caribbean lair

      After being devastated by a hurricane, the Virgin boss’s home — and celebrity magnet — has reopened to guests

      Necker Island
    • Sunday, 1 August, 2021
      Virgin Group Ltd
      Virgin cruise ship set for debut after investors keep it afloat

      The €600m Scarlet Lady will feature immersive theatre, a tattoo parlour and a sexologist on its adult-only trips

    • 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

    • Friday, 16 July, 2021
      Merryn Somerset Webb
      The company space race is a great story — but will it end happily?

      Seraphim Investment Trust is one to watch, but early adopters in new frontiers rarely prosper

    • Friday, 16 July, 2021
      Henry Mance
      Branson, Bezos and the pointless billionaire space race

      Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar

      Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson cheers with crew members after flying into space aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel
    • Monday, 12 July, 2021
      InterviewVirgin Galactic
      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
    • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
      Virgin Galactic
      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

    • 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
      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

    • Friday, 18 June, 2021
      City InsiderBryce Elder
      Virgin territory as Ovo founder takes to the skies

      Parallels between Fitzpatrick and Branson empires don’t stop at getting off the ground

    • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
      Virgin Group Ltd
      Branson asks UK court to rule on value of Virgin brand

      Business magnate embroiled in $250m dispute with US rail operator Brightline

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