(Reuters) – Virgin Galactic <SPCE.N> has rescheduled a test flight planned from its New Mexico spaceport later this week after the U.S. state imposed fresh COVID-19 restrictions, billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism firm said on Monday.
The company is aiming to obtain a commercial operating license from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration after conducting a certain number of test flights.
Virgin Galactic’s latest space test flight was planned for between Nov. 19-23, and will now be rescheduled for another time.
New Mexico has enacted a stay-at-home order through Nov. 30 amid surging coronavirus cases.
Virgin Galactic has said it has 600 customers who have signed up to fly a suborbital flight for $250,000 a ticket, and more than 400 more who have expressed interest.
(Reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
