18 July 2018
Boost for UK space sector as Scotland and Cornwall to offer spaceport facilities
... International airshow, UK, report that Lockheed Martin is to establish vertical launch operations in the remote A'Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland, Scotland, while at the other end of the country Virgin Orbit has selected Spaceport Cornwall as its...
24 February 2021
Orbex commissions industrial 3D printer for rocket engines
... around the Earth. Planning permission was granted for Orbex's home spaceport, Space Hub Sutherland, at the A'Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland in August 2020. The A'Mhoine site is currently the only UK spaceport to receive planning permission, with...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... II is located, for example, the Canary Astrophysical Institute Observatory (Tenerife, Spain), the 10 m SALT telescope observatory (Sutherland, South Africa) and the Felix Aguilar Observatory (Argentina) to name but a few. With a projected timeline...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... the site. For vertical launch, there has been UK government support for a spaceport at Melness, near Tongue in Sutherland in the far North of Scotland, with interest from launch providers Lockheed-Martin and Orbex, although there...
02 August 2016
Astronomers detect large void in the centre of our Galaxy
..., Matsunaga and team used the Infrared Survey Facility (IRSF) 1.4-m telescope and the SIRIUS IR camera located at Sutherland, South Africa, to make their observations. To their surprise however, their analysis showed a distinct lack of any Cepheids...
08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
... on the final leg of their journey into polar or sun-synchronous orbit from the planned Moine Spaceport in Sutherland, on Scotland’s north coast. The stage is topped by a disposable split payload fairing to protect the cargo of satellites during...
