Image Credit: Orbex By Andrew Parsonson, Published by European Spaceflight, 28 August 2026 Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has acquired the assets of Sutherland Spaceport Ltd, an Orbex subsidiary that was established to develop a vertical launch site on the north coast of Scotland. In a 25 August announcement,
A Chinese LandSapce ZhuQue-3 booster, the country's first to successfully touch down on land. LandSpace By Joseph Trevithick, Published by TWZ, 19 August 2026 Earlier today, Chinese firm LandSpace achieved the country’s first successful recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster on land. This follows China’s first-ever recovery of
A ULA Vulcan on the pad before its first—and, so far, only—launch of the year in February. (credit: ULA) By Jeff Foust, Published by The Space Review, 17 August 2026 Last month, Cambridge University researchers published a study hailing a breakthrough in access to orbit. Launch costs, they argued, were
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: Blue Origin By Jeff Foust, Published by Space News, 5 August 2026 WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris burns up over Ingersleben, Germany on Feb. 19, 2025. (Image credit: Bennett Theile) By Selam Gebrekidan, Published by the New York Times, 31 July 2026 Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
What the Anduril explosion tells New Mexico By Elaine Cimino,Published on Substack 14 July 2026 The Anduril Explosion Wasn’t Just an Industrial Accident—It Was a Warning About What Responsible Governments Should Do Before the First Static-Fire Test The lesson isn’t that every rocket motor facility will explode. The lesson is
HyImpulse plans to use paraffin wax as fuel: Hyimpulse Technologies GMBH By Ross Cowper-Fraser and Cameron Angus-Mackey, Published by The BBC, 20 March 2026 A second company has signed an agreement to launch a rocket from SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland this year. HyImpulse Technologies GmbH (HyImpulse) said it would be
Orbex paused plans for a spaceport facility in Sutherland in December 2024 Published by the BBC, 19 February 2026 The majority of workers at a Scottish rocket manufacturer have been made redundant, BBC Scotland News understands. Orbex employed 163 people across the UK, with most of them based in Forres
