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Sierra Space signs up Spaceport Cornwall for Dream Chaser flights Sierra Space has given a boost to the hopes of Spaceport Cornwall to be the landing centre for space vehicles, such as Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser. The US company – headquartered in Sparks, Nevada – is the new commercial space subsidiary of aerospace specialist Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). It has signed a memorandum of understanding with Spaceport Cornwall, England’s horizontal launch Spaceport at Cornwall Airport Newquay. “In the backdrop of the G7 Summit, Sierra Space is pleased to announce the ongoing progress ...

IT REMAINS unclear when a decision will be made on planning applications for the proposed Shetland Space Centre in Unst. It comes after an agent for the project said the company would be “very disappointed” if the application for the launch site at Lamba Ness misses out on...

New regulations to be put in place by the UK government should officially pave the way for commercial space launches from UK soil, from spaceports in Scotl

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has hailed an announcement today as a “pivotal moment” in the mission to launch rockets from the UK. The government laid out the Space Industry Regulations in Parliament today to allow activity to take place from a series of spaceports planned around the country. The new regulations mean satellites and rockets can launch from UK soil for the first time. Details set out in the Space Industry Regulations show that a number of these hubs could be operational as soon as next year across Scotland, as well as in Wales and Cornwall. Shapps said today: “This is...

“Poyekhali!” Dressed in an oversized orange spacesuit and equally large white helmet, the initials CCCP stamped in red across the front, an unknown Russian air force pilot prepared to make history.  It was the morning of 12 April 12, 1961, and moments earlier Yuri Gagarin had said his farewells to the gathered dignitaries and made the brief bus journey across the tarmac. Ahead of him, rising from the flat landscape of the Kazakhstan steppes, was a towering, shining rocket. Gagarin had only learned that he had been selected to become the first human being to orbit the earth three ...