Virgin Galactic, a space travel company owned by British tycoon Richard BransonThe second-quarter results were released after trading on Thursday and announced that ticket sales would resume, with ticket prices rising sharply to $450000 from $250000 per seat.
"We have a range of targeted products to meet the different ways in which people want to share the flight experience of private astronauts," Michael Colglazier, the company's chief executive, said on the earnings call.
The company also announced that its next space flight test will be conducted in late September at the American Spaceport (Spaceport America) in New Mexico, carrying members of the Italian Air Force.
Virgin Galactic reported a second-quarter loss of $56 million before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization. Revenue of $571000 came from scientific research experiments in space flight tests in May.