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...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... to handle a future environment which will see more than 100 launches a year from the Cape. That next era of launch activity will be accompanied by horizontal and vertical launches and landings of rockets and spacecraft that will be manufactured here...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... from Newquay in Cornwall, while there are other sites in advanced planning for vertical launch in Scotland. In total, there are seven prospective UK launch sites, including the Shetland Isles, the Hebrides, Sutherland, Campbeltown and Prestwick...
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...
