Virgin Galactic recently signed a deal with the Houston company Nanoracks to design and build SS2's payload mounting system.

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Present thinking seems to be that it will abandon the dual-payload approach in favour of a design that is modular enough that it can loft a single satellite that weighs anything from three tonnes all the way up to six, and possibly even eight, tonnes.

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