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...
20 June 2023
Orbex teams with Arianespace
... investors into the new round of funding. In May this year3, Orbex began construction of Sutherland Spaceport (formerly Space Hub Sutherland) on the North coast of Scotland. It is the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK mainland...
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...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
..., new launch sites are springing up or are in advanced planning in places like Scotland (SaxaVord in the Shetlands and Sutherland on the mainland), Spaceport Cornwall (for horizontal launches) and Norway’s Andøya. These new spaceports are designed...
