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...
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 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...
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...
