Virgin Orbit Cosmic Girl
Cosmic Girl, Virgin Orbit's Boeing 747 aircraft, is prepared for its next LauncherOne mission, scheduled for June 30.

On the eve of its second revenue-generating launch, Virgin Orbit is looking to 2022 to ramp up its launch activity and operate from several airports in the United States and Great Britain.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...