The Canadian Space Agency will host a virtual Industry Day for Virgin Galactic on Friday, November 6 that will allow the company to discuss suborbital flight opportunities for commercial and academic researchers. The Industry Day will also feature a Memorandum of Understanding being signed between the two organizations.
The opportunities will include using payload racks for suborbital research as well training for researchers to participate in flights. Of note, the Industry Day will not cover the opportunities available for orbital missions as that is facilitated by a separate Virgin Group company, Virgin Orbit.
Meeting details:
The event will be hosted on the Government of Canada Webex system using this link. Registration is not required, however a password is required. The password is: Vg-Csa2020.
Virgin Galactic Industry Day Program
- 14:00 – 14:15 Introductions and Live Signature of the MOU between the CSA and Virgin Galactic
- 14:15 – 14:30 Introduction to Virgin Galactic and its Flight Systems
- 14:30 – 15:00 Payload Opportunities and Customer Perspective
- 15:00 – 15:10 Intro to Mission Training and Human Tended Operations
- 15:10 – 15:30 Presentation of Academic Development at the CSA and the Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST) program
- 15:30 – 16:30 Open Q&A
