January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... before any vehicles have taken flight. But with the legislative framework in place, a number of horizontal and vertical launch sites under development and partnerships such as Prestwick and Astraius preparing nimble, versatile and elegant methods...
01 November 2022
NASA contractor to oversee Scottish spaceport construction
A Scottish rocket manufacturer and orbital launch services provider is to build and operate the first vertical launch site for satellites on the UK mainland for its eco-friendly Orbex Prime rocket, which is billed as a game-...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... to develop a very modest spaceport specifically designed to support vertical launch of small satellites into high inclination orbits such as polar ...over the northern seas is the preferred option for vertical launch in the UK. In July 2018, after a ...
November 2021
Space launch emergency response
... and exercising for emergency incidents. Continual skills training is essential for an effective firefighting response. Horizontal and vertical launch sites The emergency response plan for each LSO application will differ depending upon the mode...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... tourism is now firmly established in both horizontally and vertically launched vehicles. Unity 22 ‘mission specialists’ (from left):... US law has stymied their status as astronauts The vertical launch of Blue Origin was entirely automated, and as such...
18 July 2018
Boost for UK space sector as Scotland and Cornwall to offer spaceport facilities
...which have been made this week at the Farnborough International airshow, UK, report that Lockheed Martin is to establish vertical launch operations in the remote A'Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland, Scotland, while at the other end of the country Virgin...
