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Chief Engineer Gabe Williams takes you inside our Spaceship Factory in Mesa, AZ, for the first mate of our new spaceship and Eve. Attachment points lined up within thousandths of an inch.
Precision design. Precision build. Precision verification.
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Two vehicles, one mission, side by side in Mesa for the first time. This is what progress looks like. Stay tuned for a closer look at the precision engineering behind aligning and mating our vehicles together.
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This is the first of many feather raises during ground testing, and the first is always pretty special.
Missed it or want a refresher? Rewatch We Build Spaceships, episode 6, to see how the feather works → piped.video/R7U3h9dLO-g?si=Cydu…
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Busy week for Eve.
Wednesday: carried Unity to 53,000 ft for a glide flight.
Today: Flew to Mesa, AZ for integration checks with our new spaceship.
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Rewind to yesterday. Unity 34 in the books, second glide in the series, prepping our teams for the new spaceship 🚀
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VSS Unity completed its 34th flight today, the second in our Unity glide series preparing pilots and ops teams for the new spaceship flight test program. CJ Sturckow and Andy Edgell flew Unity; Dan Alix and Jameel Janjua flew VMS Eve. More on the glide series here → bit.ly/GlideSeries
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From design schematics to bench testing to install to POWER ON.
Avionics is the nervous system of a spaceship. Thousands of sensors. 12 miles of wiring. A constant stream of data, turned into information our pilots can trust.
Without it, the vehicle is a structure. With it, it's alive.
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Learn more about the avionics in episode 7 of We Build Spaceships here → piped.video/watch?v=o2SyMRjN…
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🗳️ Voting is officially closed.
83 countries. 6 continents. 1 spaceship. You showed up from every corner of the map, and we’re grateful for every single vote. Thank you for naming our spaceship. Stay tuned…
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Turns out people really like naming spaceships. Voting is extended through September 3. Four finalists on the ballot: Horizon, Ascend, Explorer, Apeiron.
Vote → bit.ly/nameaspaceshipvote #nameaspaceship
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Virgin Galactic announced $SPCE Q2 2026 earnings today. You can find call details, our press release, and presentation here: investors.virgingalactic.com…
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Here’s our first ship getting its livery installed: one of the last steps before Integrated Vehicle Ground Testing. Exciting to see this ship getting ready for the next stage.
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That’s a wrap on our Q2 2026 earnings call. We built it. You name it. Public voting to name one of our new spaceships is now open: bit.ly/nameaspaceshipvote #nameaspaceship
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