- Visibility41
- Citations1
- Sentiment55
- Site quality87
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name Virgin Galactic in 45% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in its sector at 21.7%. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 362nd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 2 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Virgin Galactic. AI assistants named it in 27 of 60 answers (45.0%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Virgin Galactic ranks 7 of 75 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
75 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Are there more affordable ways to experience space-like conditions without a rocket-powered flight?”
I'll search for information about affordable alternatives to experience space-like conditions.Yes, there are several more affordable alternatives to experience space-like conditions without rocket-powered flights:
Parabolic Flights (Most Affordable)
Parabolic flights offer the most affordable way to feel weightless, with specially modified planes creating 20-30 seconds of zero gravity by flying in steep arcs. Zero Gravity Corporation runs the main commercial service in the U.S., with flights costing about $8,000 per person, including 12-15 parabolic arcs. You get the same floating sensati …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtNot met
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesNot met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 0 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.virgingalactic.com · 2,047 companies scanned
2 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as Consumer brands.
- Are there more affordable ways to experience space-like conditions without a rocket-powered flight?
- Are there payment plans or deposit options available for buying a suborbital spaceflight ticket?
- What should affluent travelers know before booking a commercial spaceflight?
- How can private researchers participate in commercial suborbital missions?
- Differences between high-altitude balloon rides and rocket-powered suborbital spaceflights?
- Are suborbital flights suitable for celebrating special events like anniversaries or milestones?
- How do parabolic flight experiences compare to commercial suborbital flights for space tourism?
- How much does it cost to secure a seat on a commercial suborbital flight in the US?
- What kinds of scientific research can be conducted during commercial suborbital missions?
- What happens if my suborbital flight is postponed due to weather or technical issues?
- Is buying a ticket for a suborbital spaceflight worth the price for first-time space explorers?
- What are the best alternatives to commercial suborbital flights for experiencing weightlessness?
- Can health concerns disqualify someone from participating in a civilian spaceflight?
- Low-gravity experience options in the US besides suborbital flights?
- What are the best options for civilians looking to book a suborbital spaceflight experience?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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