February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
...not try. Artist impression of a Virgin Orbit 747 after taking off from Spaceport Cornwall. Spaceport Cornwall secured financing in November 2019 after Cornwall Council agreed to a funding package of £10.3 million (US$13.3 million), matching the funds...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... more support from the Portuguese government. The UK benefits from the horizontal spaceport development at Spaceport Cornwall, the vertical spaceports vying for supremacy in Scotland, an established smallsat manufacturing industry and multiple...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... regulatory, safety and environmental requirements had been met. Expressing her own disappointment, Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall, said: “We put our hearts and soul into this and it is absolutely devastating. But this isn’t the...
27 July 2018
UK new space launch capability to be discussed at Global MilSatCom 2018
...’s collaboration with Virgin Orbit for a horizontal launch site. SMi Group are proud to announce that Spaceport Cornwall will be delivering a briefing at its Small Satellites and Disruptive Technology Focus Day on 5th November, in London at St James...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
...) with Pradeep Dass, at this year’s Farnborough Air Show where Space Engine Systems was part of the Spaceport Cornwall booth. At least this latter research was continued, from the 1990s onwards, by Reaction Engines with its...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... Civil Aviation Authority, supported by the Health and Safety Executive. Virgin Orbit has entered a partnership with Spaceport Cornwall and the UK Space Agency that could lead to orbital rocket launches starting in 2021 using a modified former...
