September 2024
Liberating access to space
... numerous other nations around the globe and has been successfully used by the US government for over 40 horizontal launch missions. At this summer’s Farnborough International Airshow, ROOM Editor-in-Chief Clive Simpson held a joint conversation with...
February 2020
Climate change and spaceports – a difficult balance
...how can I support UK spaceports, in particular the horizontal launch variety requiring large vehicles and accompanying support flights?”. ...Spin-off technologies will develop, and the horizontal launch systems themselves will develop as the Boeing 747...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... and instrument technologies. These clusters are complemented by the maturing plans for UK launch activity. Virgin Orbit is close to delivering its first horizontal launch from Newquay in Cornwall, while there are other sites in advanced planning for...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... and low sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), as opposed to the more varied and demanding requirements posed by both horizontal launch and suborbital space tourism, which may feature in longer term UK plans for supporting commercial spaceflight. Vertical...
22 July 2022
Astraius plans horizontal rocket launch from Scotland in 2024
... are excited to be part of the outstanding team that Astraius has put together to bring their unique horizontal launch vehicle to market. Exquadrum's controllable solid rocket motor technology, with its throttlability and precise termination ability...
October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
... We’re in a remote area on 18,000 acres of land so we’ve been able to develop three distinct areas – the horizontal launch area (HLA), vertical launch area (VLA), and an advanced technology area (ATA). In the latter we have SpinLaunch, a company that...
