April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... regional authorities of the Azores, with technical support from ESA. The UK has been contemplating a spaceport for vertical launch to orbit in various guises for decades - an orbital spaceport was initially suggested in the 1960s, when studies took...
April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... in a way to allow them to be extended and enhanced without impacting day-to-day spaceport operations Whether vertical launch or horizontal launch is under consideration, there are multiple options in terms of securing what one needs to successfully...
12 February 2020
Planning is submitted for Europe’s first vertical launch site
... observation could be made from Sutherland. David Oxley, director of business growth with HIE, believes that establishing vertical launch capability will mark a major advance for Scotland’s growing space sector. “This is a truly unique and innovative...
05 May 2023
Construction begins at UK mainland's first vertical launch spaceport
...as Space Hub Sutherland) in Scotland, making this the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK mainland. Located on ...exciting time for the space sector, with the first orbital launch from UK soil expected to take place in Scotland later ...
October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
...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’s working...
September 2024
Liberating access to space
...orbital positioning as efficiently as we can. Additionally, as an agile platform, we minimise weather delays that often impact vertical launch operations. Astraius team on their stand in the space zone at the Farnborough International Airshow in July...
