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...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
..., education and transportation sectors with Atkins. Mark is the Project Director for the Spaceport 1 Consortium, developing a vertical launch capability in the Outer Hebrides, and is also a faculty member of the London Institute of Space Policy & Law...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...-offs and landings. Right now the only launch stations in use are for vertical launches - 16 across the world and a quarter... for smaller coastal airports especially when considering that each launch site will need services around it and will probably ...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
.... These are the kind of pathfinders which will be critical in the future. I also hope we move forward quickly on a vertical launch solution in the north of Scotland as has been proposed, which will certainly require some element of government support...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
..., UK satellite developers transport their systems overseas to be launched, paying large sums and running the riskof delays. The.... Similar protests have been happening at the proposed vertical launch site in northern Scotland and have continued at most...
