Stephen Attenborough, Commercial Director (Virgin Galactic):

• Stephen Attenborough of Virgin Galactic gives status update. WK2 80 flights to date, envelope largely cleared, SS2 20 flights
• VG: James Lovelock describes it as "one of the most important industrial projects of the 20th century"
• VG: logos for VG Science Services, VG Cargo (hints imminent smallsat launch announcement), VG World Travel (point-to-point)
• VG: notional valuation of company approaching $1B
• VG: Question re vibration at end of burn? Think they've fixed it, that's why they test
• VG: Question re Plan B if defeather fails? Ballistic chute? No. Critical systems have redundancy including feather actuators