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#Orbex dismayed the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 government in December last year when, with little warning, it pulled the plug on building its own #spaceport, in #Sutherland. The UK “doesn’t need the capacity for two spaceports right now”. The question is, will it ever ? telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/

The Telegraph · Meet the British space entrepreneur Phil Chambers helping to break Europe’s reliance on MuskBy Matthew Field
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Starting in 📆 2025, at least two #European 🇪🇺 launch startups (#IsarAerospace and #RocketFactory Augsburg) expect to offer more choices for both institutional and commercial customers. The field will continue to widen toward the close of the decade, with #MaiaSpace, #Latitude, #HyImpulse, #HyPrSpace, #Orbex, #PLDSpace, and #Skyrora all working toward an inaugural flight of their respective vehicles. europeanspaceflight.com/ariane

European Spaceflight · ArianeGroup Already Working to Secure IRIS2 Launch ContractArianeGroup is pushing to secure the launch contract for the European Union’s IRIS2 secure communications megaconstellation.
#Arianespace#IRIS2#SpaceCompany
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#Orbex : “The first orbital #spaceflight from the #UK 🇬🇧 has come a step closer following the Highland Council’s decision for the #Sutherland #spaceport”.

Other private aerospace companies have also developed #3Dprinted rocket engines :

• #RocketCrafters has successfully completed a series of tests ahead of a planned test flight later this year.
• #RocketLab's #Electron
• #RelativitySpace will develop “the world’s first fully 3D printed rocket.”

3dprintingindustry.com/news/or

#3Dprint#rocket
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At the end of 📆 2022, the total funding 💶 secured by all #European 🇪🇺 launch startups since 2011 was €419 million. In 📆 2023, that figure rose to €781 million, an 86% increase 📈 in the industry's total funding to date. In the first month and a half of 📆 2024 alone, another €70.5 million has been added to that figure. With the addition of that early 2024 funding, the total comes to €850 million 💰 europeanspaceflight.substack.c

Europe in Space · State of European launch startup fundingBy Andrew Parsonson
#Orbex#PLDSpace#MaiaSpace
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🇪🇺 Top Launch Companies of 📆 2023

• - Love em or hate em, ArianeGroup remains, for now, the dominant force in the European launch industry
• - successfully launched the first flight of its suborbital
• - partially successful orbital launch aboard a rocket
• - completed a total of 124 hot fire tests of its Aquila engine
• Augsburg - relying on the timely completion of to conduct its maiden flight
• - was not ready to host the launch
• - first successful hot fire test of a engine
• - hot fire test campaign of its engine
• - journey to build its own launch facility officially kicked off in May
• - rocket launched from

europeanspaceflight.com/top-eu

European Spaceflight · Top European Launch Companies of 2023 - European SpaceflightA look at the top European launch companies of 2023 based on launches completed, milestones achieved, and funding secured.
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The new 6 rocket, which is running four years late ⏳ and still hasn't flown, should be the last developed by , which will launch a competition of without weight class limitations. The field of startup launch companies in 🇪🇺 includes German 🇩🇪 firms like , Augsburg, and ; British 🇬🇧 companies such as and ; and Spain's 🇪🇸 . will use around 75 million euros 💰 to pay for the early stages of the 📦 challenge, which expects will result in three companies competing with one another arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/

Ars Technica · After the sting of Ariane 6, Europe finally embraces commercial rocketsA new deal keeps the Ariane 6 rocket afloat while looking ahead to new launchers.
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A is being created in the Highlands: spaceflightnow.com/2023/05/08/

I like the goal, but I'm sceptical about quite how sustainable most is. "Futuria Liquid Gas", which will be powering the rockets, seems to come from "waste oils and fats" (according to calor.co.uk/sustainable-fuel/f), which begs the question, how sustainable is the production of those oils and fats?

Anyway, overall I very much appreciate the sustainable ethos behind this. Best of luck Orbex.

spaceflightnow.comStart of construction paves way for first UK mainland vertical launch – Spaceflight Now
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"Baubeginn in Sutherland, dem ersten Startplatz und Raumfahrtzentrum auf dem britischen Festland"

"14,6 Millionen Pfund öffentliches Investitionspaket für klimaneutrales Raumfahrtprojekt bestätigt. Eine Pressemitteilung von Orbex."

raumfahrer.net/baubeginn-in-su

#England #Großbritannien #Orbex #Raumfahrt #Raumfahrtzentrum #Schottland #SutherlandSpaceport #Spaceport #UK #Weltraumbahnhof

5.5.2023

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