Virgin Galactic currently hosts nine companies from UK's small satellite industry. This article from  UK Telegraph discusses how Virgin Galactic is looking to focus on less astronaut occupied space travel and more on small satellite space travel. It is believed that much of this has to do with the Virgin Galactic crash that involved a fatal death of 39-year old astronaut Michael Alsbury.

AC Charania, director of strategy and business development at Virgin Galactic, is bullish with his pitch to the visitors: “We are the Uber of small launch,” he claims.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11816213/Virgin-Galactic-boldly-goes-into-small-satellites-telling-future-astronauts-you-have-to-wait.html