17 January 2020
TriSept secures dedicated rideshare mission aboard Orbex Prime
... lift off in the fall of 2022 from the UK's first spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland. With its expansion into the UK space market... is surely a mission to watch as the UK’s first spaceport emerges onto the global stage.” TriSept helped shape the very...
22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
.... Virgin Galactic has already developed a customized Future Astronaut Readiness programme for its customers flying out of Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s existing space experiences could play an important role in the training for...
17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
...’s successful return to flight, the Vega launch vehicle lifted off as scheduled at 02:52 CET / 22:52 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The first three stages functioned nominally until the ignition of the AVUM upper...
15 September 2021
Scottish billionaire ends legal challenge to Space Hub Sutherland
... in connection with Space Hub Sutherland. We are mindful that extensive commitments have been made that the spaceport will be an exemplar for environmental sustainability. While we are still concerned that those objectives will be very difficult...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... technologies more than 50 years old, there can be no successful strategies, policies, organisational structure, funding or even new spaceports. The current modern launch rocket, for example, is far less effective than a railway engine. Only one...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... feasibly be applied to other targets should the need arise. Planned to be launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than a third of Rosetta’s launch mass...
