08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
...company has purchased a 2,000 square metre building at The Enterprise Park in the town of Forres. It combines a ... project, which is funded by development agency Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the UK Space Agency (UKSA). Charlotte Wright...
12 July 2021
Downstream data services boost ground segment market
... to the reduction in activity in transport and enterprise. Euroconsult estimates the 2020 market for user terminals... market because of COVID, although this will recover as enterprise increases. For ground stations, Euroconsult does not anticipate a...
01 November 2022
NASA contractor to oversee Scottish spaceport construction
... cost-effectively. Orbex, based in Forres, Moray, has now signed a lease with development agency Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) for the spaceport location on community-owned land on the A' Mhoine peninsula in north-west Sutherland. HIE...
16 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... success”. The book’s multidisciplinary approach reveals these competing depictions to “unpack the meaning of the spaceflight enterprise”. It is replete with the trappings of an academic history (50-plus pages of chapter notes and index) and, at the...
21 November 2019
Orbex opens doors to Europe’s most modern rocket factory
... rocket to take off from the proposed spaceport in Sutherland. On August 1, 2019, Orbex’s partner, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) confirmed that it had signed a 75-year lease option with landowners, the Melness Crofters Estate, to build...
10 August 2020
ULA & SpaceX win substantial US government launch contracts
...The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise garnered these savings by creating innovative acquisition ... contract period. Concurrent with this announcement, the SMC Launch Enterprise, in collaboration with the NRO, will order the first...
