Virgin Galactic Begins Work on Mesa SpaceShip Plant

Assembly for Virgin Galactic’s first Delta SpaceShip will begin this month at its new East Valley factory. 

The company — which completed the buildout of its Mesa manufacturing facility last summer — expects private astronaut flights to follow in the fall of 2026. 

Virgin Galactic occupies two hangars at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, in its Gateway Executive Park. The company’s presence spans more than 140,000 square feet, where hundreds of engineering and manufacturing employees will work.

The Delta Class SpaceShips will be capable of flying eight space missions per month with 12 times the monthly capacity of Virgin Galactic’s original spaceship, VSS Unity.

The company announced a partnership with Redwire Corporation to manufacture research payload lockers for the new Delta SpaceShips. The platform promises to upgrade microgravity research capabilities for both autonomous and human-tended research.

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