April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... country’s northern Obock region launching to the east over the Gulf of Aden. Spaceport licensing Unless we find a new way to support and unlock future spaceports, many will not get off the drawing board The world of regulatory...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... a launch licence by meeting their respective regulatory requirements. Specifically, in the United States there are over ten spaceports licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, the Pacific...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... microsatellite development, and space tourism. In August 2013, Houston’s City Council approved the formal pursuit of a commercial spaceport license from the FAA – Office of the Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST). To picture the type of launch...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... the conditions for launch here. We’ve shown we can do it and we’ll look to do it again.” Spaceport Cornwall received the United Kingdom’s first-ever spaceport license from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in November and in late December Virgin...
