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...
10 December 2020
Orbex secures $24 million funding round for Scottish space launch
... achieve, including the first ever vertical launches from UK soil.” Orbex has already confirmed six commercial satellite launch contracts, with the first launches expected in 2022. The company's preferred launch site will be the Sutherland spaceport...
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...
27 July 2018
UK new space launch capability to be discussed at Global MilSatCom 2018
...the UK leading in small satellite sector, growing emphasis is being placed on new launch sites, recent announcements for new funding for a vertical launch spaceport in Scotland and Cornwall Spaceport’s collaboration with Virgin Orbit for a horizontal...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
...Space Agency announced that it was supporting the site at the A’ Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, as being the first vertical launch orbital access Spaceport in Britain for northward direction polar orbit and high inclination Sun-synchronous satellite...
