By Clive CooksonPublished by Business Telegraph, 4 November 2022 The UK government’s failure to obtain guaranteed access to the satellite navigation systems essential to defence and critical infrastructure risks endangering national security, a cross-party group of MPs has said. The House of Commons science and technology committee on Friday criticised
Published by BBC Newsround, 2 November 2022 A remote bog in Scotland could become the Britain's first 'traditional' spaceport . The peat bog (which just means a soggy area of decaying organic matter - yum) is on the A' Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, which is in the North-West of Scotland.
Orbex said Nov. 1 that construction of Spaceport Sutherland, which will host launches of its Prime rocket, will begin "imminently" and be completed some time in 2023. Credit: Orbex By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 1 November 2022 WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle developer Orbex announced Nov. 1 it had
Orbex Prime at Kinloss test stand. Pic: Orbex By Thomas Moore, Published by Sky News, 1 November 2022 The Scottish rocket manufacturer Orbex will build and operate the spaceport, creating around 40 jobs and investing £20m in the construction under a 50-year lease. A remote peat bog owned by Scottish
Unlike the rockets used by Nasa and SpaceX to launch satellites, Virgin Orbit will use a specially adapted jumbo jet - VIRGIN ORBIT/EPA By Ross Kaniuk, Publsihed by The Times, 31 October 2022 Protesters have targeted Britain’s first satellite launch to complain about the cost of living crisis. Next month
The Cosmic Girl landed in Cornwall on 11 October ahead of its mission in November Published by the BBC, 31 October 2022 Protesters have demonstrated against the first UK satellite launch, at Newquay Airport in Cornwall. Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) protested alongside Drone Wars UK on
Currently, India carries out all rocket launch activity from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh Photograph:( Others) By Sidharth MP, Published by Wionews, 18 October 2022 India's second spaceport will come up at Kulasekarapattinam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and the work on building it
