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...
30 May 2023
Virgin Orbit cuts its losses and ceases operations
... Boeing 747 aircraft called Cosmic Girl – a horizontal launch method that differs from most rivals' vertical launches. But the crippling setback it suffered in January, when an attempt to launch the first satellites into space from British soil ended...
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 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...
