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...
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 ...
19 July 2024
Fire Arrow expands its global spaceport expertise
... early development and design of two of Scotland’s spaceports working on both the Sutherland Spaceport vertical launch facility and Prestwick Spaceport horizontal launch facility. Arup’s work with Fire Arrow is poised to broaden its horizons as the...
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...
