** Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit Holdings VORB.O
up 7% at $0.57 premarket
** Stock down about 17% so far this week, headed for its
third straight weekly decline
** Stock hit an all-time low of $0.41 on Tuesday
** Billionaire Richard Branson's cash-strapped company said
on Thursday it is in talks with "interested parties" about an
investment in co
** Reuters reported on Wednesday that Texas venture capital
investor Matthew Brown was nearing a deal to invest $200 mln in
the space startup, sending shares up 33%
** VORB shares have lost about 93% of their value in the
past 12 months
(Reporting by Medha Singh)
((medha.singh@thomsonreuters.com))