Tim Peake Returns: UK’s Historic Collaboration with Axiom Space for Groundbreaking Space Mission
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced a significant agreement with Axiom Space, a leading aerospace firm based in Texas. This collaboration is aimed at an all-British astronaut space mission. Adding to the anticipation, Tim Peake, the first British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to visit the International...
British rocket company reveal plans for Sutherland spaceport
Moray based rocket company Orbex has been granted a fifty-year lease on UK´s 1st mainland vertical launch spaceport site. The company will work with Spaceport specialist Jacobs to deliver the £20m construction project that will create forty new jobs in Sutherland. Orbex is known for its unique Orbex...
Spaceport Sutherland gets a green light to lift off
Sutherlands A'Mhoine Peninsula has beat out Cornwall’s Newquay, Campbeltown in Argyll and Bute and Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales to secure funding for the UK's first spaceport. The business case put forward by 'Highlands and Islands Enterprise' would use a stretch of land, located on the north coast of...