The British commercial spaceport competition was a plan by the UK government announced in early 2014 to select a site, build a commercial spaceport, and...
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport (section Commercial use)
Airport was shortlisted as a potential UK Spaceport, as part of the British commercial spaceport competition. In June 2019, the Scottish government announced...
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2014). "Britain plans to build commercial spaceport". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2013. McArdle, Helen (20 May 2016). "UK spaceport competition axed...
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Newquay Airport (redirect from Spaceport Cornwall)
shortlisted by the Civil Aviation Authority as a possible site for a British commercial spaceport. The shortlist was reduced to six airports in March 2015, with...
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Virgin Galactic (category Commercial spaceflight)
approximately $200m (£121m) in the Spaceport America facility, for which Virgin Galactic is the anchor tenant; other commercial space companies also use the...
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List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024 (category Use British English from December 2023)
Payload Partners With Maritime Launch, Adding Canada's First Commercial Spaceport, Spaceport Nova Scotia, to Launch.ctrl Marketplace". Business Wire (Press...
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Rocket Lab Electron (category Use British English from January 2021)
(16 July 2018). "Scotland to host first UK spaceport". BBC News. Retrieved 16 July 2018. "Sutherland Spaceport Scotland". SpaceTV. Retrieved 22 August 2019...
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Scotland (redirect from North of Great Britain)
space industry, Scotland is home to two planned spaceports – Sutherland spaceport and SaxaVord Spaceport – with launch vehicles such as the Orbex Prime...
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rapidly as the technology develops and is more frequently deployed on commercial projects. The Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship UK Industry Conduct Principles...
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advance technological approaches to meet objectives. In the late 1980s, commercial interests emerged in the space industry and have expanded dramatically...
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Private spaceflight (redirect from Commercial spaceflight)
RocketShip Tours, ARCASPACE, PlanetSpace-Canadian Arrow, British Starchaser Industries or non-commercial like Copenhagen Suborbitals. Additionally, suborbital...
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Richard Branson (category Use British English from June 2013)
UK and US competition authorities to investigate price-fixing attempts between Virgin Atlantic and British Airways. In August 2007, British Airways was...
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Space industry of Scotland (section Spaceports)
S-band capability. There are multiple spaceports in varying phases of development in Scotland. Two Scottish spaceports, SaxaVord and Sutherland, were scheduled...
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Newquay (category Use British English from August 2015)
resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall, approximately...
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Elon Musk (category American people of British descent)
Falcon 9 on a land platform. Later landings were achieved on autonomous spaceport drone ships, an ocean-based recovery platform. In 2018, SpaceX launched...
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funded, dedicated commercial spaceflight on a commercial launch vehicle dedicated to the mission ... to conduct approved commercial and marketing activities...
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to attract the commercial space industry to Georgia as part of an ongoing effort to establish the state's first commercial spaceport. Spencer was one...
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2024 in the United Kingdom (category Use British English from October 2023)
Retrieved 19 August 2024. "Rocket engine explodes during test at Shetland spaceport". BBC News. BBC. 19 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024. Sherlock, Gemma;...
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Falcon Heavy (section First commercial contracts)
well as recover the first stage core following landing at an Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship barge after completion of primary mission requirements. These...
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Christmas Island (category British rule in Singapore)
Australian government in 2001 agreed to support the creation of a commercial spaceport on the island; however, this has not yet been constructed and appears...
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SpaceShipTwos have been ordered and will operate from the new Spaceport America. Commercial flights carrying passengers were expected in 2014, but became...
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Exploration of the Moon (section Commercial missions)
Jones, Andrew (January 10, 2024). "China's Chang'e-6 probe arrives at spaceport for first-ever lunar far side sample mission". SpaceNews. Archived from...
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Crop circle (category Use British English from June 2024)
California in December 2017 by a father and his 11-year-old son as a spaceport for X-wing fighters. In 1992, Gábor Takács and Róbert Dallos, both then...
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History of spaceflight (section Competition develops)
Agency banning Russia, and increased private competition in spaceflight capabilities, enabled by the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015....
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historian Jordan Bimm described how the concept shares similarities with the British concept of the sublime—an experience associated with views from high mountains...
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I-Space (Chinese company) (category Commercial launch service providers)
2022). "New launch vehicles set for test flights from China's Jiuquan spaceport". SpaceNews. Retrieved 8 July 2022. China 'N Asia Spaceflight [@CNSpaceflight]...
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orbital speeds. A rocket launch for a spaceflight usually starts from a spaceport (cosmodrome), which may be equipped with launch complexes and launch pads...
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Ayr (category Use British English from August 2014)
Technical Services. Prestwick Spaceport launched a bid in partnership with South Ayrshire Council to become a spaceport focusing on small satellite launches...
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missions Lucy and Psyche, selected in January 2017 after a three-year long competition. The Discovery program also presides over "Missions of Opportunity" (MOs)...
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Akatsuki was launched on the rocket H-IIA 202 Flight 17 from the Japanese spaceport Tanegashima Space Center, having three plates depicting Hatsune Miku....
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