17 January 2020
TriSept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex Prime
...-time presence at the Harwell Space Campus in Oxford, England beginning this year. Designed and developed by UK-based Orbex, the Orbex Prime launch vehicle offers a payload capacity of 150kg to Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), ideally suited for a broad...
21 November 2019
Orbex opens doors to Europe’s most modern rocket factory
... to investigate and perfect the carbon fibre blend used in the patented construction of its Prime rocket. Thanks to its choice of design and materials, Orbex Prime will be 30 per cent lighter than similar sized rockets, allowing acceleration from...
08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
... further reduces the tank volume required. As a result, the Prime vehicle is claimed to be 30 percent lighter and 20 percent more efficient than other small satellite launchers. Orbex is partnering with Calor for supply of the bio-propane fuel...
01 November 2022
NASA contractor to oversee Scottish spaceport construction
... peat land that have degraded over centuries. Uniquely, the new Orbex Prime rocket is powered by a renewable biofuel, Futuria Liquid Gas, ...of Exeter showed that a single launch of the Orbex Prime rocket will produce 96 per cent lower carbon emissions ...
14 January 2022
Eco fuel to power Orbex rocket
... the world's most environmentally friendly space rocket. A recent study by the UK’s University of Exeter found that a single Orbex Prime launch would produce up to 96 percent lower emissions than a similar-sized launch vehicle powered by fossil fuels...
05 May 2023
Construction begins at UK mainland's first vertical launch spaceport
... the journey to LEO, allowing the release of its payload of small commercial satellites into Earth's orbit. Uniquely, Orbex Prime is powered by a renewable bio-fuel, Futuria Liquid Gas, supplied by Calor UK. This fuel allows the rocket to reduce...
