September 2024
Liberating access to space
... UK-US start-up Astraius is pioneering an innovative approach to its planned global launch operations which it aims to start from spaceports based in the UK. Astraius will use the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, a tried and tested system capable...
24 May 2021
Virgin Galactic makes first flight to space from New Mexico
... the mothership, VMS Eve, and reached space, at an altitude of 88 kilometres (55 miles) before gliding smoothly to a runway landing at Spaceport America. On VSS Unity’s flight deck were CJ Sturckow and Dave Mackay, while Kelly Latimer and Michael...
October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
...340 days of sunshine and low humidity. ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson met up with Scott McLaughlin, Spaceport America’s Executive Director, at this year’s Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Scott McLaughlin pictured in front of a replica of the...
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...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
... it was supporting the site at the A’ Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, as being the first vertical launch orbital access Spaceport in Britain for northward direction polar orbit and high inclination Sun-synchronous satellite payloads. The government...
05 June 2019
UK government backs ambitious space plans
...UK space strategy and governance The UK Space Agency and Cornwall Council intend to make available up to £20 million for Spaceport Cornwall and US launch operator Virgin Orbit to develop facilities and operational capabilities that would enable small...
