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The British Are Building a Spaceport

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @09:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The lure of commercial riches in space is spurring a variety of plans to help launch all the components necessary for a fully functioning orbital economy.

The latest to enter this private-sector race is the U.K., which announced Monday that it plans to construct the nation's first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland. Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded $31 million for two U.K. projects: Establishing vertical launch operations in Sutherland and a development program slated for Reading to deploy a new "delivery vehicle" to deploy as many as six small satellites.

Is it the second coming of the Space Race?

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  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:48AM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:48AM (#708699)

    Is it the second coming of the Space Race?

    It's also pretty clever planning: If Scotland does decide to split from the UK over Brexit, it'll still be in the EU, so the port will be more attractive for the European launch business.

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