December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... contributions from the space industry. It was an exciting time. A Government announcement of a first UK-based commercial spaceport to be located in Scotland was quickly followed by Virgin Orbit’s decision to conduct horizontal launch services from...
01 March 2021
Turkey to build a rocket launch site in Somalia to support Moon 2023 landing
...space programme, which also involves building a spaceport in Somalia to facilitate launches, were unveiled ...are governmental draft calculations that suggest to establish and maintain the spaceport in Somalia will cost more than $350 million. A further...
29 October 2021
UAE and Blue Origin enter into space tourism partnership
... company. The deal would see the possible construction of a spaceport to allow space tourism flights to lift off from a desert...Origin, said the UAE was an “obvious choice” for a spaceport and that it was looking to expand its launch sites from ...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
Euclid is due for launch on a Soyuz-Fregat from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, by mid-2021. The optical/near-infrared survey mission, which is part of ESA’s Cosmic ...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...’ on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle, VSS Unity. The Unity 22 mission, launched from New Mexico’s Spaceport America and piloted by Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci, provided Branson and three Virgin Galactic employees...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
... Engineers in Brownsville,” and from tweets by Musk hinting at the acquisition. “SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon, & hypersonic travel around Earth,” tweeted Musk in June last year. Starship is Musk’s huge...
