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...
15 April 2019
Stratolaunch completes maiden flight successfully
...to orbit by blasting off in a rocket from a vertical launch pad. Stratolaunch debuted last year and had been conducting ...of 10,668 metres (35,000 ft), one or more of the launch vehicles can be released. This allows for a rapid constellation deployment...
13 July 2022
Sustainability ethos is key driver for UK microgravity firm
... is leading the race to establish the first vertical launch site in England close to the nerve centre ...microgravity testing, includes ADA which became the first ever commercial rocket launched from UK soil in August 2021. ADA is a smaller version ...
20 June 2023
Orbex teams with Arianespace
...Orbex began construction of Sutherland Spaceport (formerly Space Hub Sutherland) on the North coast of Scotland. It is the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK mainland and will become Orbex's 'home' spaceport, where the company will...
