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Rocket Lab launches US Space Force mission

July 30, 2021
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By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 30 July 2021 Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) - Rocket Lab, the leading launch provider and space systems company, has successfully launched a research and development satellite to orbit for the United States Space Force (USSF). The mission was Rocket Lab's fourth launch for

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The Department of Transport has announced new regulations to allow space flights to take place from the UK

First UK space launch due next year as government introduces new rules

July 29, 2021
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| Launch sites, News, Satellites, Space Rules, Space Tourism, UK

Published by Sky News, 29 July 2021 People will be able to visit space for a holiday and hypersonic flights - which are faster than the speed of sound - will eventually launch from the UK, the Department for Transport claimed. Space flights and satellite launches can now take place

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Lift off for UK spaceflight as regulations passed

July 29, 2021
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From: UK Department for Transport, Civil Aviation Authority, UK Space Agency, Amanda Solloway MP, and The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP Published by UK Government, 29 July 2021 Legislation provides framework enabling the UK to be the first European country to launch spacecraft and satellites from home soil. new regulations

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Proteus, the mother ship for American Polaris submarines and their nuclear-tipped missiles, docked in the Holy Loch in March 1961

How Scotland is at risk of a front-line role in a deadly new arms race

July 19, 2021
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| Launch sites, Radars, SpaceX, UK

By George Kerevan, Published by the National, 19 July 2021 IT is a product of Scotland’s subordinate status that when the great powers clash it is Caledonia that instantly becomes the proxy front line. Sixty years ago, on March 3, 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the US

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifts off May 18 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying the U.S. Space Force's SBIRS GEO-5 satellite into orbit. (United Launch Alliance)

Space Force’s new delta organizations will help the service keep up with growing launch cadence

July 1, 2021
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By Nathan Strout,Published by C4ISRNET, 16 June 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force is reorganizing its launch organizations, and while the change may not have immediate impacts, operators believe the new structure prepares the service for the coming moment when it is launching satellites

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Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne takes off from a 747 aircraft. (Virgin Orbit)

Virgin Orbit plane launches four US military satellites into space

June 30, 2021
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By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 30 June 2021 WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit successfully delivered four U.S. military satellites to low Earth orbit on June 30 as part of the company’s second successful launch of the LauncherOne rocket. While most space launches start with the rocket standing vertically on a

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Dorothy Pritchard on the Moine near the proposed Spaceport.

Insight: The battle to build UK’s first spaceport in Sutherland

June 20, 2021
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By Dani Garavelli, Published by The Sctosman, 20 June 2021 Sutherland “space crofters” Dorothy Pritchard and Wilma Robertson are standing on the Mhoine - a peat bog stretching from Loch Eriboll to the Kyle of Tongue - and talking about rockets. Situated on the western periphery of the Flow Country,

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South Australia startups target international space opportunities

June 18, 2021
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By Staff Writers, Published by Space Daily, 18 June 2021 Adeliade, Australia (SPX) - All based in Adelaide, South Australia, the companies include Fleet Space Technologies, Inovor Technologies and Southern Launch. Southern Launch has been approved to conduct three rocket test launches from its site at Whalers Way reserve on

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