United Kingdom (UK) based spaceflight company Orbex has begun construction at the Sutherland Spaceport in Scotland. Set to host launches of Orbex’s Prime rocket, Sutherland is the UK mainland’s first vertical launch site.
With another vertical-launch site at SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetlands, and Spaceport Cornwall’s horizontal-launch options, the UK is finally ramping up its domestic spaceflight ambitions after decades in the wilderness.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the joint NASA/CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission from…
With less than one year to launch, France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and NASA…
In recent months, the United Kingdom’s endeavor to tap into a rapidly-growing market of commercial…
Plans to launch small satellites from the Scottish Highlands took a step closer to fruition…
The UK’s new domestic spaceport in the Scottish Highlands has moved into a public consultation…
UK launch services provider Orbex has unveiled a completed engineering prototype of the second stage for…
The UK Space Agency released the latest survey into the health of the UK space…
A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket has successfully launched the Meteor M2 satellite along with a…
An innovative UK satellite has been confirmed for a late 2013 launch on a Soyuz…
On the 50th anniversary of Britain’s first journey into space, the European Space Agency (ESA)…
