18 July 2018
Boost for UK space sector as Scotland and Cornwall to offer spaceport facilities
...rocket launch, as each region has formed strategic partnerships with prominent aerospace companies to develop launch and spaceport facilities. The announcements, which have been made this week at the Farnborough International airshow, UK, report that...
04 October 2017
First ever Stratollite launch from Spaceport Tucson
... doors to business. “The FAA recently provided a Certificate of Authorization to World View to launch Stratollite missions from Spaceport Tucson. It features an immense launch pad measuring 700 feet in diameter – about the area of six football fields...
19 June 2020
New US-UK agreement boosts UK’s spaceport plans
... investment from government to promote its own launch industry sector, e.g., Skyrora, Orbex, Reaction Engines, Rocket Plane, Spaceport Cornwall, Astroscale, etc. The deal would also give European companies an additional choice when coming to select...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... a commercial spaceflight market, Ellington Airport (EFD) has the opportunity to ensure Houston’s continued leadership in space. The spaceport designation was the culmination of two years’ work by the Houston Airport System (HAS) and their colleagues...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... percent, with a key part of this including spaceflight from UK soil. So began an initial competitive search for UK-based spaceports, with the focus initially on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipOne and Reaction Engines’ Skylon. The ‘competition’ gave way...
January 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
.... Turning a daily or weekly launch schedule into a visitor attraction would be a good way to promote and pay for a spaceport Historian Nicholas Hill, who researched the thinking behind the Royal Aircraft Establishment’s apparently unlikely first...
