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Title    The British Are Building a Spaceport
Date    Tuesday July 17 2018, @09:29PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/17/158224

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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  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "the nation's first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-15/the-british-are-building-a-spaceport
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