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...
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...
16 April 2024
An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry
... on vehicles capable of horizontal take-off and landing. However, many other planned spaceports are based on the vertical launch of (mostly) small launch vehicles. Meanwhile, the technology of reusable first stages that return autonomously to the...
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 ...
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...
