April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, the Pacific Spaceport Complex and Spaceport America. The UK’s Sutherland vertical launch site, and its potential future Newquay horizontal launch site...
18 July 2018
Boost for UK space sector as Scotland and Cornwall to offer spaceport facilities
...rocket launch, as each region has formed strategic partnerships with prominent aerospace companies to develop launch and spaceport facilities. The announcements, which have been made this week at the Farnborough International airshow, UK, report that...
04 October 2017
First ever Stratollite launch from Spaceport Tucson
... doors to business. “The FAA recently provided a Certificate of Authorization to World View to launch Stratollite missions from Spaceport Tucson. It features an immense launch pad measuring 700 feet in diameter – about the area of six football fields...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... a commercial spaceflight market, Ellington Airport (EFD) has the opportunity to ensure Houston’s continued leadership in space. The spaceport designation was the culmination of two years’ work by the Houston Airport System (HAS) and their colleagues...
January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
.... Turning a daily or weekly launch schedule into a visitor attraction would be a good way to promote and pay for a spaceport Historian Nicholas Hill, who researched the thinking behind the Royal Aircraft Establishment’s apparently unlikely first...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
..., expensive satellites are replaced with fleets of easily replaced smallsats. A private plane on the ‘Gateway to Space’ apron at Spaceport America. This changing landscape posed severe challenges for the antecedent regulatory regime under the Outer...
