{"id":166263,"date":"2023-06-23T08:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/virgin-galactic-raises-300-million-seeks-another-400-million-to-expand-spacecraft-fleet"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:42:51","slug":"virgin-galactic-raises-300-million-seeks-another-400-million-to-expand-spacecraft-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/virgin-galactic-raises-300-million-seeks-another-400-million-to-expand-spacecraft-fleet","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic raises $300 million, seeks another $400 million to expand spacecraft fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactic-raises-300-million-seeks-another-400-million-to-expand-spacecraft-fleet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company opened the first fundraiser August 4, saying at the time that the funds \u201cwould be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital, general and administrative matters, development of its spaceship fleet and other infrastructure to scale its commercial operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic had cash and securities totaling $874 million at the end of the first quarter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/05\/09\/virgin-galactic-q1-earnings-report.html\">it reported in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company has a single carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, and one spacecraft, VSS Unity, which it has said can conduct flights as frequently as once a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company opened the first fundraiser August 4, saying at the time that the funds \u201cwould be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital, general and administrative matters, development of its spaceship fleet and other infrastructure to scale its commercial operations.\u201d Virgin Galactic had cash and securities totaling $874 million at the end of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}